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...small, costly, natural crystals like Iceland spar. Polaroid's sponsors say that it will do anything expensive crystals will, can be inexpensively manufactured in any size. Actual cost figures will probably not be available until large-scale equipment is set up. Developed by Physicist Edwin H. Land, senior partner of an independent Boston laboratory, Polaroid's synthetic organic crystals are bound in a plastic film of cellulose acetate. The tiny crystals are pulled into parallel alignment by stretching the film. The material polarizes about 99.9% of the transmitted light. Other uses for Physicist Land's discovery: three...
...After serving nine years on the board of governors, Thaddeus Reamy ("Brick") Benson, 51, was elected president of the Chicago Stock Exchange to succeed Michael J. O'Brien, a local partner of Paine, Webber & Co., who had held the post thrice. White-haired President Benson got his start in his father's real estate firm, shifted to American Can Co., later went into roofing. A broker since 1910, he became senior partner of F. M. Zeiler & Co. in 1923. Handsome, humorous, immaculately dressed, "Brick" Benson likes to fish, play golf, lives in suburban Winnetka. Asked about the outlook...
...Elected president of the New York Cotton Exchange was John Chester Botts, stoutish, stolid partner in Jenks, Gwynne & Co. He succeeded little John H. McFadden, who, in addition to his duties as head of the Cotton Exchange, has had to spend a vast amount of time satisfying the curiosity of South Carolina's Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith, chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and an inveterate investigator (TIME, April...
...Ernest Simpson, the former Wallis Warfield of Baltimore, Md., known to the world press as King Edward's favorite dancing partner, his companion on numerous holiday excursions...
...years ago, when he was 18, he went to Los Angeles to live with his sister. His brother-in-law persuaded him to try professional boxing in 1932. Last year, when Joe Louis arrived in Los Angeles to fight Lee Ramage, he offered Leroy Haynes a job as sparring partner. Haynes refused, offered to fight Louis instead. Louis' managers countered with an offer to manage Haynes. Wary lest he fail to receive a full share of their attention, Haynes declined again, decided to go East. If he failed to make a living with his fists, he knew he could...