At Philadelphia's Franklin Institute one afternoon last week twelve men received from President Nathan Hayward the Institute's annual awards for achievements in science. Among the distinguished dozen were two Detroiters, one of them, Charles Franklin Kettering, already famed as General Motors' research vice president; the other so little known even in his home city that, when Detroit newspapers got word of the Franklin awards, they could find no mention of him in their morgues. This was Albert Leroy Marsh, president of Detroit's Hoskins Manufacturing Co., who won the John Price Wetherill Medal "for...
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