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...Thomas Edison. Soon he had a research laboratory of his own. Four years later he patented the induction motor, first effective utilization of alternating current. He discovered the rotary magnetic field principle used today in the hydroelectric plants at Niagara Falls. He invented dynamos, transformers, induction coils, condensers, arc and incandescent lamps. He was acclaimed a great genius...
...only four (Little Women, Flying Down to Rio, Wild Cargo, Morning Glory) were money-making hits. In charge of RKO's 50 forthcoming pictures will be president Benjamin Bertram ("Bright Boy") Kahane. Most important on the production schedule for 1934-35: three Katharine Hepburn pictures (Joan of Arc, the Forsyte Saga, The Little Minister') ; Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii; Irene Dunne and John Boles in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence; Brian Aherne and Ann Harding in The Fountain and Franci: Lederer in The Three Musketeers...
HEROIC LIVES - Rafael Sabatini - Houghton Mifflin ($3). Richard Coeur de Lion, Francis of Assisi, Jeanne d'Arc, Sir Walter Raleigh...
...others arc Vance (Reds), Grimes (Cardinals), Luque (Giants), Rice (Indians), Jones (White Sox), Ruth (Yankees), Gonzales (Cardinals), Haines (Cardinals...
...Popolo d'Italia, in the course of a routine sermon on the evils of birth-control, pointed directly to the U. S.: "If the declining birthrate continues at its present rate in the U. S., the number of biers will surpass the number of cradles. Blind and foolish arc these ignorant destroyers who believe they can efficaciously combat the Depression by sterility. There are in the U. S. 11,500,000 Negroes of extraordinary fecundity. . . . The yellow peril is nothing. We will encounter an Africanized America, in which the white race will end by being suffocated by the fertile...