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Jitney Beginning. Orville Caesar, a mechanic turned executive, still likes to tinker with machinery in his home workshop in Harrington, Ill. He invented the Tropic-Aire hot-water heater to replace the dangerous and smelly exhaust-pipe system for heating buses, saw it become the standard for passenger cars. The son of a Swedish blacksmith, Caesar went to work in an auto-repair shop in his teens, later started a small bus service. In 1925 he joined forces with the late Eric Wickman, who had been building up a bus system in Minnesota since 1914, when he started with...
...their day, the Chicago Cubs trio of Tinker, Evers & Chance pulled the most famed double-plays in baseball. But last week the New York Yankees closed a real-estate deal that was even harder to follow. Yankee Owners Dan Topping and Del Webb sold Yankee Stadium (but not the ball club) for $3,600,000 in cash, and took back a $2,900,000 mortgage and a long-term lease. The buyer: a syndicate headed by Chicago Investor Arnold Johnson, 46, vice chairman of Automatic Canteen Co. of America (of which Topping is also a director) and director...
...large, astonished eyes and a nose slightly off-center. The magic seemed to be in her gentle, fluty voice and in her personality -the curious way she had of tossing her head or motioning imploringly to the audience. Through the tumult of her success, she remained as elusive as Tinker Bell. She had few close friends, was rarely seen in public off stage. At one time, overwork broke her health, and she found rest in a Roman Catholic convent in France (she was a nondenominational Christian). She lived there in a white-walled, cell-like room, which she later...
Each autumn students enroll in Chemistry 2, expecting a tough and boring semester of inorganic chemistry. By January they know that they were right about the course's toughness, but few call it uninteresting. Associate Professor Leonard K. Nash enlivens his courses by sprinkling lectures with graphic experiments. Tinker toys show the electron configurations of the elements to Natural Science 4 students, and Nash proves the explosive quality of hydrogen by turning a flamcthrower on soap bubbles filled with...
...state senate in the 1870s, according to legend, Democrat James K. Jones thundered a reply to a proposal to change the pronunciation of his state to make it rhyme with Kansas. "Change the name of Arkansas?" boomed he. "Never!" No serious attempt has been made since then to tinker with the name of Arkansas; but one man has tried-with notable success-to change its face. He is a bustling Baptist named C. (for Coulter) Hamilton Moses, chairman of Arkansas Power & Light Co., who has been called the "Billy Sunday of Business." In the past ten years, Industrial Evangelist Moses...