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...U.S.S.R.'s campaign to claim all the inventions of the past half-century, is the man who invented the radio. In the picture, Popov triumphs, despite the conniving of an "Italo-British adventurer" named Marconi "who, while still inexperienced in scientific matters, was nevertheless an aggressive grabber of other people's ideas and inventions...
...enough of that. He himself is aware that the first two volumes add few cubits to George Washington's stature. In the Virginia of Washington's day, writes Dr. Freeman, "One verb told the story . . . grab, grab, grab." Washington's father and grandfather had been successful grabbers in a relatively small way. Father Augustine (he was called Gus) could afford to send two of his sons to school in England, though George got his meager schooling at home. When he died in 1743, Gus Washington left over 10,000 acres and 49 slaves. To eleven-year...
Britain's Ambassador Sir Maurice Peterson kept wires to Whitehall humming with reports of a "chaotic state of affairs."* But speculators perked up. In a not-so-fabulous fable, Leningrad's Pravda told of one speculator whom it called Evlampy Khapuga ("Grabber...
Died. Harry Bacharach, 73, five times mayor (1911-20, 1930-35) and longtime "No. 1 Booster" of Atlantic City; in Atlantic City. An ardent publicity-grabber (he once carried on the city's business in an amusement-pier office flanked by an educated chimpanzee and a half-man-half-woman), he nonetheless worked noisily at keeping his resort free of known thugs and "undesirables...
...character actors who are famed for scene-stealing, but not once does she come off second best. The attitude of her more experienced fellow workers has probably been best expressed by Veteran Barrymore. After a short rehearsal one day with Actress O'Brien. 'Barrymore, a notorious scene grabber himself, was heard to mutter : "Two hundred years ago, they'd have burnt her as a witch...