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Died. Elihu Thomson, 83, co-founder of General Electric Co., onetime (1920-22) acting president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; after two months' illness; in Swampscott, Mass. A precocious British immigrant who built an electric friction generator out of a wine bottle before he entered high school, Elihu Thomson invented electric welding, the standard three-phase alternating current generator, the centrifugal cream separator, the common watt meter, the street arc lamp; built the first electric locomotive for Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...
Johnson, whose home is in Swampscott, attended Milton Academy. He is an editor of the Lampoon and is on the Adams House Committee...
...Aronson '36, of Brookline; William J. Baker '36, of Cambridge; Laurence L. Barber, Jr. '37, of Arington; John B. Barney '37, of Bridgewater; Edward L. Bassett '36, of Marblehead; Frank A. Bautze '36, of Boston; Robert L. Bentley, 2d. '36, of Arlington; Charles N. Breed, Jr. '36, of Swampscott; John Briggs, 3d. '38, of Cambridge; John H. Burns '37, of Andover; Stanley J. Boguniecki '36, of Westfield...
...Charles G. Bancroft of United Shoe Machinery; J. A. Turrell, retired Woolworth executive. One day some of the members went to Leslie Buswell's home in Gloucester, Mass., then for luncheon at the nearby showplace of John Hays Hammond, who was ill abed, finally rejoining their ladies at Swampscott for a dance and clam bake...
...Breed, Jr. '36 of Swampscott was unanimously elected captain of the Freshman swimming team, at a meeting of the squad yesterday afternoon...