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...year ago Coalminer Edwin Midgley of South Kirkby, Yorkshire joined a football pool that netted him a tidy $44,800. With a whoop and a holler, Midgley quit the coal-digging business "forever...
...mile event, the Bruin team of Les Midgley, Joe Toby, John Toby, and Josh Toby outran the Crimson mile-relay quartet of Ed Grutzner, Harvey Thayer, Ron Berman, and Tom McGrath. The home side's two-mile team came in third, and the Brown freshmen, who were lapped, trailed the field...
Died. Thomas Midgley Jr., 55, discoverer of tetraethyl lead for antiknock gasoline, vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp., president of the American Chemical Society; of accidental strangulation, by a self-devised harness for getting in & out of bed since he was invalided in 1940 by infantile paralysis; in Worthington. Ohio...
...A.C.S.'s President Thomas Midgley Jr. complained that scientific progress was suffering from "too many old men at the helm." An inventor who made his most important discovery (tetraethyl lead in gas) at 33, Dr. Midgley, now 55, cited cases (e.g., Sir William Perkin's invention of aniline dyes at 18) to show that invention is a young man's game. Said he: "Every executive who has lived beyond the age of 40 is guilty, to some slight extent, of not getting out of the way of the younger...
...Longtime board chairman of the American Chemical Society and recipient of almost every important medal that organization confers, Midgley in 1930 stood before his admiring fellow chemists in convention at Atlanta. Dramatically he demonstrated Freon's safety by drawing the gas into his lungs, using it to put out a lighted paper. The staid scientists gave him a rowdy ovation...