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Kanfer first turned his attention from print to print-outs more than a year ago, when he asked John P. Dessauer, a leading book industry statistician, how TIME could have the nation's most accurate bestseller list. With advice from the American Booksellers Association, Dessauer devised a sample of some 1,200 stores in cities across the U.S., balanced according to location, type of store and local sales volume. The group includes dozens of independent shops and mini-chains, the two largest U.S. booksellers (B. Dalton and Walden) and one middle-sized national chain (Brentano's). Each participating...
...work for the Haloid Co., a photocopying firm that his grandfather had helped start in 1906. Shortly before he became president, the Government began drastically cutting back on its large wartime orders from Haloid, and Wilson started a search for new products. His chief of research. Dr. John Dessauer, showed him a 25-line abstract in a Kodak company journal describing a dry copying process that had been invented by Physicist Chester F. Carlson in the 1930s but never commercially developed. Wilson studied Carlson's equipment-which had been unsuccessfully offered to Kodak, A.B. Dick and IBM-then decided...
Died. Friedrich Joseph Dessauer, 81, pioneering West German radiologist and Roman Catholic author (Religion in the Light of Contemporary Science), who built the first device capable of taking multiple X-ray photographs of the human heart beating, and was one of the first to discover radiation's therapeutic value in the treatment of tumors; of radiation poisoning (a toxic dose, which he absorbed in his 20s, continued to poison his body until it finally caused his death); in Frankfurt...
...Indianapolis; Barker Bros. Corp., Los Angeles; Bloomingdale's, Manhattan; Famous-Barr Co., St. Louis; Marshall Field & Co., Chicago; Gimbel Bros., Philadelphia; Jordan Marsh Co., Boston; The Halle Bros. Co., Cleveland; The J. L. Hudson Co., Detroit; Kaufmann Department Stores, Inc., Pittsburgh; The F. & R. Lazarus & Co., Columbus; Wolf & Dessauer, Fort Wayne...
...most concerted denunciation of the Dawes Plan yet heard within its walls. Deputies representing every German political faction spoke in well nigh unanimous agreement for something over a half day, amid repeated applause from all over the House. No Cabinet member took part in the debate, but Deputy Friedrich Dessauer, speaking for the Centrist party of Chancellor (Prime Minister) Wilhelm Marx, was considered to have voiced the opinion of the government when he said...