Honored For Enterprise Success
Twelve men recognized for rising from humble beginnings to head major industries in the 1961 American Success Story Awards. Recipients include Samul H. Swint of Augusta Georgia president of a 9-plant fabric firm and DeWitt C. LeFevre of Beaver Falls New York who built a multi-plant binder operation from a three-car garage.
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United States
Free Enterprise Awards Association, Inc
New York City
Samul H. Swint
Augusta
Chicago
Poland
Marina City
Donald J. Donovan
Highland Park
Ill
Dale J. Bellamah
Albuquerque
N. Mex
Donald C. Power
James E. Broyhill
Lenoir
N. C
Edwin V. Coulter
St. Paul
Youth Knocks Europe Bound by Thumb Adventure
Barstow California youth James Knox 19 traveled across Europe by hitchhiking turning a thumb into a 10 nation tour. He began near Paris where a German chemist provided transport dinner and a night’s lodging then rode with Turkish Swiss German and other travelers for cost free mobility. Knox returned to California and plans to start college.
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Europe
James Knox
Barstow
Calif
Knox
Paris
Munich
Germany
Switzerland
California
Only Male Student at Girls School Chooses Webster College Program
Charles Schmitt, 18, the sole male in Webster College’s all girls school in Kirkwood Missouri, pursues a fine arts major with studio classes at Webster and general courses at nearby St Louis University. He attends afternoon Webster classes and morning SLU sessions, saying the arrangement draws curious attention but he values the experience.
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Charles Schmitt
Webster College
Kirkwood
Schmitt
Webster
St. Louis University
Schmit
St. Louis
Electronic Heart For Human Use Seen As Possible
Dr. Mark Blumberg of the Stanford Research Institute predicts defective human hearts may be replaced by electronic ones. He says hearts are simple pumps and could be duplicated. Energy supply is the main hurdle, with radio power and spring-wound devices discussed but not perfected.
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Mark Blumberg
Stanford Research Institute
Los Angeles
Car rips pants from pedestrian in Lima incident
Virgil C. Hennon stepped from the curb into a street in Lima when a passing car’s door handle grabbed his trousers and ripped them off. He suffered a slight hip abrasion and did not sue driver R. J. Custer of Rockford, Ohio.
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Virgil C. Hennon
Lima
Ohio
Hennon
R. J. Custer
Rockford
Science Toys Dominate This Christmas Toy Market
Science has introduced a glam Christmas lineup with educational toys for boys and girls. Highlights include missile and nuclear submarine replicas with operation manuals, historic-invention patterns, road-building sets, an airlines lift truck, and electric trains that fling hay. Indoor adaptations of outdoor sports appear, the Olympic Games theme shown, and frontier six guns with plastic bullets remain popular.
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Airlines
Frontier
FTA Changes Chapter Name at Andrews High School
The Future Teachers of America at Andrews High School voted Monday night to rename the chapter the Luisa Calderon Chapter. Brodie Hutchinson, assistant principal, spoke on the importance of college and shared statistics on unemployment by education level.
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FTA
Andrews High School
Luisa Calderon
Future Teachers of America of Andrews High School
Brodie Hutchinson
One Man History Covering World Events Since Time Began
Charles Defleux of Vancouver Canada has single handedly compiled a massive reference work titled The Years of Man. The edition includes a 17 000 entry chronology and a 541 page index with 16771 cross entries. Defleux began the project in 1943 as a hobby and broadened its scope from medicine to war art politics and business.
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Charles Defleux
Vancouver
British Columbia
Canada
Toronto
Earth
Defleux
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