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...make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good." A college friendship cemented by twelve hours in an open boat after a ship wreck made lifelong partners of Peter Cooper's son Edward and Abram Stevens Hewitt. Together they took over the Cooper iron works at Trenton, N. J. and Partner Hewitt married Peter Cooper's only daughter, Sarah Amelia. Vastly successful in business, Abram Hewitt built the first U. S. open-hearth furnace, manufactured the first U. S. steel of commercial value, directed Cooper Union...
Many thanks for news of my nephew, Hewitt Frenyear Mitchell, airmail pilot, Shanghai to Peiping, who shared with a news correspondent a diplomatic resistance to Japanese searchers of his plane [TIME, Dec. 9]. Will you now give his correct name, and perhaps a few other facts? Born of New England ancestry, raised among the raisins of the San Joaquin Valley, he worked his way through Stanford largely by radio repairing, overcame parental doubts, took army aviation tests and found eyesight deficient in one minor point. His oculist, who had helped prepare army tests, advised special exercises for a year. Doggedly...
...Hewitt Mitchell is now married to a former school friend and rearing a baby daughter who traveled some 10,000 mi. during her first three months. Back in Shanghai, flying through the fogs of the Yangtzekiang, and meantime training Pilot McCleskey for the new Shanghai-Chengtu Express, he is looking forward to a vacation and home next summer...
...Louis, Mo.: William G. Hewitt '38, St. Louis, Mo.; J. Stanley Nants Jr., '39, St. Louis...
November 12, E. Power Biggs; November 19, Biggs; December 3, Carl McKinley; January 21, Miss Helen Hewitt; March 17, Mrs. Ruth Connision Morize; April 7, William Self; May 5, Professor Davison. Fugue in D-major Bach Evening Harmonies Karg-Elert Bouree Handol Symphonic Romane Widor