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...invention as I have done." So said one Anatol Josepho of New York last week, a few moments after pocketing a slip of paper upon which were written the idyllic figures $1,000,000. His invention was a "quarter-in-the-slot" machine. Out of it comes, not gum or hairpins, but a strip of eight sepia photographs, each 2 in. x 1½ in., showing the quarter-dropper in whatever eight poses it has pleased him to strike. The pictures are photographed direct upon sensitized paper. To make a strip of eight pictures requires only eight minutes. A syndicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Photomaton | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

Costly lawyers argued before the Supreme Court of the U. S. last week over homonymic trademarks. The Beech-Nut Packing Co. (BeechNut provisions, chewing-gum, candies) wanted P. Lorillard Co. (tobaccos) to cease labeling one of its cigaret and tobacco brands Beechnut. Lorillard Co. asserted that Beechnut was the name of a chewing tobacco made by a now dissolved Kentucky firm they once owned; that Beech-Nut Packing was not making tobacco products and was not injured by the similarity of trademarks. Beech-Nut complained that some day they might want to manufacture cigarets and other tobacco products; then there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Beech-Nut v. Beechnut | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...money is put in a school fund. Fines for talking in class, gum-chewing, untidiness swell the total but violated grammar is chief source of revenue. Like any system, there is a defect. Thrifty pupils come to regard bad grammar as a luxury. Said a seven-year-old economist: "Sure, I use bad grammar, but I wait till I'm out in the street, see?" Said a self-indulgent eight-year-old, displaying a dime: "Momma give me two ain'ts for my birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Two Ain'ts | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...fixing in private business. Of course public utilities must be regulated, but a theatre is a private enterprise, just as much as is a grocery store. . . . Had this decision gone the other way we would soon have the price of a haircut and the price of a stick of gum and the price of a newspaper fixed by legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Scalping Is Legal | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

Subsequent examination developed that a pugilist is no stronger than his bridgework. Sharkey's right fist had torn loose one of McTigue's substitute molars. This tooth, driven through the upper gum, had met a large artery; caused a hemorrhage; lost the battle for its owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Celtic Gore | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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