Exit Engineer

An unwilling newsmaker is short, stocky Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford's School of Engineering. When the Globe (Ariz.) Record last year published an interview quoting him as saying that his brother Herbert would not run for President in 1936, Brother Theodore exploded: "A complete fabrication!" Last week Theodore Hoover made undeniable news by announcing that, having reached the age of 65, he would retire from Stan ford in June. Promptly newshawks amended: ". . . To go fishing with his brother Herbert."

Famed among mining engineers for two sober works, Concentrating Ores by Flo tation and Economics of Mining, Dean Hoover, like his brother, worked his way through Stanford, managed Burmese and Australian mines, followed his brother to London to make a tidy fortune as a stock promoter. In Palo Alto he lives with his wife in a comfortable house four blocks from Brother Herbert's. Engineer Hoo ver's three firmest tenets are that the world stands to suffer from a metal short age, that wars are inevitable, that such terms as "culinary engineer," "cosmetic engineer," "sales engineer," are abomina tions which insult his profession.

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