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Globe started as Bennett Aircraft Corp. in March 1940, but Backer Frank Bennett was bought out ten months later. The company has an authorized capital of $350,000 and smart, Scottish-born John Kennedy as president. Kennedy went to Texas during World War I, picked up a reputation as an amateur boxer, made money in chemicals, vaccines, livestock. He set up Globe with the help and cheers of the local Chamber of Commerce. Its plant was a 50-by-300-ft. tile and galvanized-iron barn built for Kennedy's string of show horses. Its intended product...
...been much performed in the U.S. Year ago the string version of the Seven Words was given its U.S. debut, by the Primrose Quartet. On sale last week was the first recording of it (Victor: 17 sides; $9), a fine one by the same outfit, whose boss is crisp, Scottish-born, cricket-playing William Primrose, world's best viola player...
...tuition according to their means). Last week it became known that the man who coached the crews and originated the idea, Father Frederick Herbert Sill, had sent Kent old boys a note beginning: "I am very happy." Reason: the trustees had elected a new headmaster - 33-year-old, Scottish-born William Scott Chalmers, Princeton '29. In this characteristically self-effacing way Father Sill, ill since last year, let his boys know that he had decided at 67 to pull up stakes...
Died. John MacGregor Grant, 66, Scottish-born president of Transamerica Corp., $150,000,000 holding company for the Giannini banking empire; of heart disease; in San Francisco...
...Scottish-born Dorothy lona Campbell Hurd Howe, 57-year-old wife of a Princeton, N. J. banker, is the only woman who ever won the world's four major female golf championships: Scottish, British, Canadian, U. S. Two years ago, when twice-married Mrs. Howe joined the U. S. Women's Senior Golf Association, she ran away with the national Senior championship too. Last year Mrs. Howe successfully staved off all challengers...