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Repeat. In Wooster, Ohio, College Professor B. F. Yanney, mathematician and astronomer, pointed out that if calendars for 1945 are scarce, old ones from 1934 are exactly the same...
...first chemist ever to head Standard, plainspeaking, heavy-set Bob Wilson is the son of a college professor (College of Wooster, Ohio). He left an associate professorship at M.I.T. in 1922 to become assistant director of S.O.I.'s research department. In his research days he developed refining processes on which he holds 90 patents, including one on Indiana's widely advertised oil, Iso-Vis. Standard has cashed in on these and other processes Wilson had a hand in finding. Wilson has cashed in too. His salary of $60,000 a year, as president of Pan American Petroleum...
Died. Otelia Augspurger Compton, 85, "American Mother for 1939," widow of Elias Compton, dean of the College of Wooster, mother of three sons (all in Who's Who) and one daughter, who among them hold 31 college and university degrees (Karl, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Arthur, University of Chicago's Nobel Prize physicist; Wilson, Washington, D.C., econonist and lumber executive; and Mary Rice, Presbyterian missionary); in Wooster, Ohio. Of his mother's formula for family success, Son Wilson once observed: "She depended on the Bible, soap and castor...
Those who attended the conference heard one worth-while address, a discussion of nutritional problems in wartime by Dr. W. E. Krauss of the Wooster, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. The rest were more variations on the theme of "Turn the New Deal Rascals Out," with an irresponsible overworking of the terrible word famine. Perhaps to reassure themselves, the entire body repeated the pledge of allegiance to the flag at the opening of each session, five times in two days...
...waste a day in his 78 years. He worked hard even at play until a heart infection last November brought him to his own great Cleveland Clinic as a patient. His chief personal characteristic was energy, and his chief study from the time he was a medical student at Wooster University (now part of Cleveland's Western Reserve University) was the bewildering mystery of the nature of the energy that is called life...