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Born 52 years ago in Haverhill, Mass., brisk, self-assured Harlan True Stetson was once a physics instructor at Dartmouth, an assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard, director of the Perkins Observatory at Ohio Wesleyan. He has traveled on five solar eclipse expeditions, belongs to a dozen reputable scientific bodies, including astronomical, physical, optical, geophysical and radio engineering societies. His colleagues have voted him an asterisk in American Men of Science for distinguished research. At present a research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has actively developed the new science of cosmic-terrestrial relations, ably popularized his specialty...
Four distinguished U. S. scientists, Arthur H. Compton, Geologist Kirtley F. Mather, Astronomer Harlan T. Stetson, Psychologist Edward L. Thorndike, uttered hosannahs of approbation for a book The Advancing Front of Science* by George W. Gray, from which the above words are taken...
...Belleville, Ont., prankish striking pickets at the Stetson Hat Works forced watchful police to stand at rigid attention for 20 minutes at a stretch by playing God Save the King on harmonicas...
...William McKinley, beaten in the 1890 elections, was packing up for Ohio. Mr. McKinley left his Bible for Harry. Years later Sereno Elisha Payne, chairman of the Committee during Taft's Administration, gave him his furniture. Oscar Underwood's legacy was a complete wardrobe including a big Stetson...
...International Shoe Co. showed an $8,416,000 profit for the fiscal year through November, a slight drop. Endicott Johnson Corp.'s income ($1,974,000) was also off a little from the year before. But it was a good year for hats. Philadelphia's John B. Stetson Co. swelled its profits from $301,000 to $485,334, while Hat Corp. of America (Knox, Dobbs) reported net income of $923,000 in the year through November compared to $779,000 in fiscal 1935. It was also a good year for clothing. Said President Mark W. Cresap of Hart...