Word: alva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contributions from such time-honored New Yorker favorites as E. B. White, James Thurber, Ogden Nash, John McNulty, Peter Arno, Gluyas Williams and the late Helen Hokinson. Readers with a long memory could even pick up the fourth part of a "profile"* of the late Playwright Wilson Mizner where Alva Johnston left off eight years...
...University of Wisconsin ($1,000) described historical attempts, all failures. Second Prizewinner C. Peter Johnson Jr. of Harvard ($500) dived into unproductive mathematics. Third Prizewinner: John C. Cook of Pennsylvania State College ($250). But Babson is not downhearted. He remembers the last time he talked with Thomas Alva Edison, who died in 1931. Said Edison: "Babson, remember you don't know nothin' about nothin'. You've got to find something that insulates from gravity. I think it's coming about from some alloy." There are plenty of alloys...