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...David Coolidge, Dean Frederick M. Feiker of George Washington University School of Engineering, Manhattan Patent Lawyer (and Theatre Guild director) Lawrence Langner, Ethyl Gasoline Corp.'s Vice President Thomas Midgley, Director Watson Davis of Science Service, Engineering Dean Webster N. Jones of Carnegie Tech, U. S. Patent Commissioner Conway Coe. Absent from the first meeting were Industrialist George Baekeland (Bakelite Corp.) and Dr. Orville Wright, once rated a crackpot tried & true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Crackpots' Haven | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

...jail in Los Angeles last week moped lean-jawed 19-year-old Private Conway J. Bristow, sentenced by a court martial to six days for being absent without leave from drills of his National Guard outfit. Two years under the draft age set by the Burke-Wadsworth Conscription Bill, Private Bristow was ready to get back in uniform, wait the Government's call of the Guard to active emergency service. Said AWOLer Bristow of the most common of fense committed by soldiers: "I hope the sentence won't reflect on my patriotism. If I had not been patriotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: AWOL | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Married. Francis X. Shields, 29, Manhattan laundryman, onetime No. 1 U. S. tennist; and Donna Marina Torlonia, younger daughter of U. S. Hardware Heiress Elsie Moore Torlonia and sister of the Prince of Civitella Cesi, who is married to the Infanta Beatrix, daughter of Alfonso XIII; in North Conway, N. H. Fortnight before, Shields was divorced by Socialite Rebecca Tenney Shields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 29, 1940 | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...North Conway, N. H., up-&-coming Frank Kovacs of Oakland, Calif, trounced Chicago's 19-year-old Seymour Greenberg, public parks champion, 6-4, 6-1, 8-6, to win the second annual Eastern Slope Gold Racquet tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another Budge? | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...years gone by, early July tournaments such as these caused only a raised eyebrow among U. S. tennis fans. Last week, however, with America's top-notch amateurs competing at home instead of at Wimbledon, the tennis world watched with interest. Most eyes were on North Conway. For the Gold Racquet tournament-inaugurated last year by Manhattan Banker Harvey D. Gibson to publicize his native village as a summer as well as a winter resort-has already become an important event on the U. S. tennis calendar. On display at North Conway was 20-year-old Frank Kovacs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another Budge? | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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