Word: inventor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second time within a month, Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay, inventor's heiress who two years ago sued her mother for tricking her into a sterilization operation, was separated from her garageman husband, Ronald Gay. Gay went home to his mother; his wife sent packing after him-her engagement ring, but not her wedding ring, for which she said she herself had paid. Both talked of impending divorce. Said he: "I have been a husband and at the same time a stranger in her home. If we ever go back together-and I sincerely hope we can work this thing...
Died. Juan de la Cierva, 74, reactionary Minister of Justice in Spam's last cabinet under King Alfonso; of diabetes; at Madrid's Norwegian Legation, where he had hidden all through the civil war. He died not knowing that his namesake son, inventor of the autogiro, had been killed in a K. L. M. air crash 13 months before (TIME...
...Inventor Hansell last week explained in his own words: "The process of forming the image takes advantage of the effect of integration or accumulation of the effect of the waves upon the screen and this increases its sensitivity...
...magnificent Rembrandts. Upon these scenes of public congratulation and goodwill there dropped last week a large and sputtering bomb. It was tossed from nearby Merion, Pa., by one of the master bomb-throwers of the art world, none other than the terrible-tem-pered Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes, millionaire inventor of Argyrol and owner of the finest private collection of modern French paintings in the U. S. Dr. Barnes was incensed by the Museum's statement that "a second version, and a slightly smaller picture" of Les Grandes Baigneuses was in the Barnes Foundation collection. In response he roared...
...plays running on Broadway, offstage organ music is simulated by that versatile instrument, put on the market two years ago by Inventor Laurens Hammond, which produces organ-like sounds- and many others-by electrical vibrations (TIME, April 29, 1935). Last week the American Federation of Musicians, ever vigilant where mechanical music encroaches upon musicians' jobs, stepped in with an order that an orchestra of at least four men must be employed wherever a Hammond is played...