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Died. Reginald Francis Sedgley, 61, English-born gunsmith and firearms inventor; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. In 1936 he admitted to the Senate Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry that he had bought machine guns from the U. S. Army for 12$ apiece, reconditioned them, sold them to Brazilian revolutionists...
Last week Detroit honored Dr. Naismith, now 76, with a banquet at which the original 1893 players, who 32 years ago organized into teams representing Adams "Y" and the Detroit Athletic Club, stuffed themselves with chicken. Afterwards the two teams, refereed by Inventor Naismith, played basketball as it was when baskets were peach baskets. Shoving and tackling under the original catch-as-catch-can rules, the hearty players (the oldest was 61, the youngest 53) battled for all they were worth. When the game was over the score was 2-to-2. Unanimously the players decided to postpone the overtime...
...Gilpatric, author of The Compleat Goggler and inventor of the sport, was a professional aviator who climbed to a passenger altitude record after three months as a licensed pilot, an advertiser who climbed to a vice-presidency after 13 years with Manhattan's Federal Advertising Agency. Then he escaped to the French Riviera to write popular stories about a Scottish engineer. His spare time he passed in fencing and pistol shooting until he found scaly targets more interesting...
...many years he has worked hard, ridden a bicycle for exercise, worn white clothes the year around "to let sun-light through," chewed each mouthful of vegetarian fodder 32 times. Editor of Good Health, author of Plain Facts (sex education via pictures of plant life), he is the inventor of flaked cereals manufactured by his brother, W. K. Kellogg. Dr. Kellogg once dictated (indoors) for 20 hours straight, dressed only in his summer underwear. Last week he celebrated his 86th birthday by stripping to a loin cloth, dictating (outdoors) to a secretary, having his picture taken...
Like many another inventor, Otto Zachow had no head for finance. He and his brother-in-law, William Besserdich, unable to get their machine into production, interested a husky young lawyer named Walter Alfred Olen. Walt Olen set out to raise $250,000. In 1910 the present company was incorporated, with him as president, and Otto Zachow received a block of stock. About 1914 Zachow and Besserdich sold out for $25,000. That was a mistake, for General Pershing had found several F.W.D. trucks useful while chasing "Pancho" Villa across Mexico. When War broke in Europe, the Allies began buying...