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Presses whirred last week in the U. S. Bureau of Engraving & Printing, turning out a new 2? stamp. Standard size, standard red color, it will commemorate the golden jubilee of Thomas Alva Edison's electric light bulb (TIME, May 27). Design : The bulb, rays of light; the caption, "Edison's First Lamp...
...father, Thomas Alva Edison, will remain at his rubber experiments in Fort Myers, Fla., for the actual anniversary does not come until Oct. 21 and there are many things which Mr. Edison, aged 82, wants to crowd into his remaining years...
...Thomas Alva Edison headed the staff appointed last week by the Fort Myers, Fla., Women's Community Club to publish an issue of the Tropical News. She wrote editorials: extolled Adolph Simon Ochs (New York Times), flayed handshaking as too hard on President Hoover, attacked billboards. Robert Cedric Sherriff, London insurance broker, amateur playwright of super-successful Journey's End (TIME, April 1), announced last week he was writing a play about the antarctic death (1912) of Explorer Robert Falcon Scott...
...shrill and crackling hail greeted Herbert Hoover when he and Mrs. Hoover joined Thomas Alva Edison's 82nd-birthday party at the Edison estate near Fort Myers, Fla., early last week. It was deaf Mr. Edison yelling: "Hello, fisherman...
...Dearborn, also, there is being reconstructed the brick laboratory in which, at Menlo Park, N. J., Thomas Alva Edison invented the incandescent bulb 50 years ago. That golden anniversary will be celebrated nationally...