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Bell Telephone Co. paid a yo-year-old debt last week. Alexander Graham Bell was really studying the problems of the deaf when he happened to invent the telephone. Now the telephone company, grown great on his sideline invention, has developed a method of making speech visible, so that the totally deaf can read...
Before ordering a shot, he peers forever through his finder, working to make each shot the most abundant and expressive possible (he was once a photographer). Besides being "boom-happy" Minnelli is "extra-crazy," taking infinite pains to invent minor bits of business with anonymous individuals and groups. No man in the business gets more satisfactory results...
...possible to be more wicked at this sort of thing and at the same time more tasteful by means of pantomime than by word-of-mouth; and when an actor is attending to spoken lines, even good ones (and these are only pretty good), his ability to invent expressive pantomime is almost bound to slacken. There are some rough, funny scenes in A Royal Scandal, especially a long, toast-quaffing, glass-smashing seduction scene between the Empress and the most faithful and willing of subjects. But too much of the humor depends, typically, on your capacity for being amused...
TIME-in-Rome brings to nine the number of TIME-editions printed especially for our servicemen across the oceans - for TIME was the first magazine to invent a "Pony" Edition for fast overseas delivery, and the first magazine to print a special edition for our troops in Australia, first in Hawaii, first on the Persian Gulf, in the Middle East, in India, in the Philippines...
June Bugs and Generators. Tesla had the fictional earmarks of genius. He was humbly born (in a Croatian village now part of Yugoslavia) of a preacher father and illiterate mother who loved to invent household gadgets. Nikola invented a popgun and a water wheel at five; a 16-bug-power motor (operated by June bugs glued to the arms of a tiny windmill) at nine; a "vacuum motor" at twelve; his famed alternating current generator at 25. This came to him while he was reciting Goethe's Faust one day in a Budapest park; he promptly diagrammed...