Word: edwin
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...about. Prime among them is monopoly; the company controls so much of the U.S. camera-and-film market (more than 40%) that the specter of the trustbusters always looms large. Then there is Polaroid, whose convenient "instant" photographs have caused something of a revolution in the camera industry. Dr. Edwin Land offered to sell his picture-in-a-minute system to Kodak in 1946, but Kodak's deliberative managers figured that the company was already too busy with seemingly surer projects, thought Land's camera would not click. Another sore subject is competition from those precise, lower-wage...
...large grant from an anonymous donor, now believed to be Edwin H. Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, financed the freshman seminar program originally. The donor intended the grant to make the freshman year intellectually more interesting...
Throughout his long and lustrous career, Composer Igor Stravinsky, 80, has consistently refused the degrees and formal honors that accompany fame. But since 1959, at the invitation of New Mexico's affable Roman Catholic Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne, Stravinsky (himself devoutly Russian Orthodox) has traveled to Santa Fe to conduct such works as his magnificent Symphony of Psalms in the city's St. Francis' Cathedral. Now Byrne urged him to accept from Pope John
...Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Japanese History, will resign his position on the Faculty when his two-year leave of absence expires in March. The resignation will enable Reischauer to maintain his present appointment as the U.S. Ambassador to Japan...
...very complexity of the problem was what appealed most to Dr. Edwin H. Land and his colleagues at the Polaroid Corp. in Cambridge, Mass. This week they began to market the improbable. Polacolor, a self-processing color film. Now, just 50 seconds after the snap of a shutter, a surgeon can record a sharp color shot of a delicate operation; an alert military reconnaissance pilot can produce a revealing picture of an enemy operation; a doting parent can turn out a portrait of his child in remarkably accurate tints...