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...audiences; in Los Angeles. A tiny (5 ft. 5 in.), restless dynamo who arrived in the U.S. from Hungary at age 16 in 1889 with $40 to his name, Zukor had a simple formula for success: "Look ahead a little and gamble a lot." In the early 1900s, he and another immigrant furrier, Marcus Loew, gambled on the fledgling moving picture business-first with a string of penny arcades featuring flickering, hand-cranked "peep-shows," later with storefront nickelodeons. Convinced that the movies' future lay in full-length dramas, Zukor in 1912 split with Loew, who later became...
Died. Arthur Ernest Morgan, 97, educational innovator, author and chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority from 1933 until 1938, when F.D.R. dismissed him following a policy dispute; in Xenia, Ohio. A surveyor's son, Morgan studied civil engineering in the early 1900s and became one of the nation's top specialists in flood control. In 1913, after a flood hit Dayton, Morgan went there to build the first major diversion reservoir in the U.S. During the next few years, he noticed that many of the college-trained engineers working for him lacked practical skill; to remedy the situation...
...athletic squads, particularly on how the football team performs against its Ivy League competitors. Lynch's last minute kick on Saturday may well have been a $64,000 connection. Who can even estimate the economic value of coach Percy Haughton who reversed Harvard's losing ways in the early 1900s, and whose defensive hand signals were later used during World War I by the U.S. Army...
...dilemma familiar to other artists of the 1900s: the crisis of hand made "reality" in an age of photography...
...looks inevitable," Bowyer said. "This [view] is based on an extrapolation of more than 50 years of history. If you look at Cambridge in the early 1900s, you'll find only little houses here and there...