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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Built-in Hits. Bud Hillerich's father was an apprentice in his father's small wood-turning shop one day in 1884 when a local ballplayer, Pete ("Old Gladiator") Browning, broke his bat. Young Hillerich offered to make Browning a new one. The next day Old Gladiator rapped out three hits. Ballplayers figured that young Hillerich made bats with hits in them, rushed to place orders. By 1904 John Sr. was a full partner in the firm. He started an advertising trend by getting famous players to endorse his bats, wrested the professional bat market away from front...
...strong enough to make a clean break with those bad bygone years. In Aspen, Colo.'s Community Church, she married Houston Oilman W. (for William) Howard Lee, 51, freshly divorced from his second wife, ex-Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr. Lee had courted Gene while she clerked in a dress shop in Topeka as an outpatient in Kansas' renowned Menninger Clinic, and had convinced her that he is a thoroughly reformed playboy. Said the bride: "Everything looks so beautiful today!" In London's Haymarket Theater, shortly before the curtain rose on Terence Rattigan's hit play Ross...
...Arnold O. Beckman, 60, is a former assistant professor of chemistry at California Institute of Technology who did a friend a favor by making a "pH" meter to test the acidity of lemon juice, set up shop in a garage in 1935 to manufacture them for industrial testing purposes. The small beginning grew into Beckman Instruments, which now has sales of $45 million, makes analytical instruments. Beckman owns 37% of his company's 1,380,000 shares, which is now worth $44.9 million...
...Boathouse. For Acoustica's gangling Chairman Robert L. Rod, 40, the Atlas contract is the climax of five years of building up his ultrasonics business from a shop in a Long Island boathouse to a leading position in ultra-high sound systems (TIME...
...Right, Jack. Looking like a fanatical potato, ubiquitous Peter Sellers plays a union shop steward, who dreams of a worker's paradise, with enormous sadness and brilliant humor...