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...driven car, even though Selden himself never built one. Virtually every U.S. automaker paid 1½% of his sales in royalties to the owner, until Ford, in 1908, sent word: "Selden can take his patent and go to hell." After eight years of court fights, Ford proved the patents invalid...
...last week, Eaton had the latest laugh. Manhattan's U.S. court of appeals ruled that Eaton's contract was, indeed, invalid. In its prospectus for the issue, said the court, Kaiser-Frazer stated its earnings in such a way as to represent that it had made a profit of about $4,000,000 in December 1947. "This representation was $3,100,000 short of the truth." This failure to make full disclosure not only "violated the Securities Act of 1933" but was "a breach of the contract," even though Otis & Co. had all the facts and had helped...
...rheumatic fever at eleven, Mary Dansereau had been facing the prospect of an early death. The mitral valve of her heart had become calcified. To maintain circulation, her damaged heart had to work harder, and it was slowly giving out. For four years she had been a semi-invalid, unable to do much for her two children, and so weak that she took an hour to make...
...CRIMSON has made two other suggestions: that the Social Relations Department should not accept invalid conclusions; that press distortion be avoided by clear writing. One might remark that this is a little like being against sin. In any case these suggestions call for policies which should show some experience in trying to implement specific plans. If the CRIMSON would maintain its generally advanced level of journalism its editors would do well to investigate first what that experience has been. Sheldon H. Edelstein Teaching Fellow in Social Relations...
...mention Harvard will be those that treat some unique property of this college. In that case, there remain two worries: conclusions drawn by the thesis-writer from insufficient data, and distortion by newspapers of the author's conclusions. The solution to the first is not to accept theses with invalid conclusions; then the Department will not have the responsibility of hiding them from the public. The solution to the second is to follow the other writers in the art of writing clearly and correctly, so as to cut down the possibility of later distortion...