Word: inventor
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...plainer words, the incredible fact was that the two leading members of Britain's team had been accused of systematically cheating. One was Terence Reese, 51, a saturnine, abrasive Oxford chap, inventor of an esoteric, seldom-used artificial bidding convention known as the "Little Major." He was also England's most brilliant writer on bridge (author of twelve books, columnist for the Observer and London's Evening News), and one of the two or three best players in the world. The other man was Boris Schapiro, 53, a gregarious ex-wholesale-butcher...
...Daisy is a discothèque, run as a "club" by its owner, Jack Hanson, inventor of Tax slacks. He decides who will be allowed to pay a $250 "membership fee." Thus not the least of the pleasures of belonging is the knowledge -swiftly telegraphed throughout the movie colony-that one night recently, both Peter O'Toole and Jason Robards Jr. were turned away because they weren't members or members' guests. Another of the Daisy's pleasures is that it has some of the most eye-filling females in the U.S. frugging and swimming their...
...cartoonist, poking fun at the Soviet propensity for stealing the inventions of other nations, once created a Russian inventor named Regus Patoff, an acronym for the omnipresent "Reg. U.S. Pat. Off." Last week, after decades of pirating others' ideas without so much as a thank you, the Russians joined the Paris Convention of 1883, the pact under which 67 nations agree to honor one another's patents and trademarks. In the future the Russians will have to pay the same licensing fees as everyone else when they cast a covetous eye on a new product or process...
Production Up. Since it was founded by the late Dr. Willis H. Carrier, the inventor who first successfully united cooling with humidity control, Carrier Corp. has air-conditioned the Navy's atomic submarines, the complex of buildings at New York's Kennedy Airport, even a South American anthill imported for research purposes by the University of Chicago. Its most difficult job was jet aircraft; with the aid of watchmakers, Carrier built a 300-lb. miniaturized system that does the work of equipment normally weighing 5,000 Ibs. Carrier's largest assignment is the Albany South mall...
Died. John Hays Hammond, 76, electronics inventor who at the age of 23 set up his Hammond Radio Research Laboratory, over the years collected some 350 patents for inventions ranging from the prototype of the modern vacuum radio tube, bought by RCA for $500,000 in 1926, to the first radio-guided torpedoes, while pouring his considerable royalties into his Gloucester, Mass., home, a massive Gothic castle complete with moat, drawbridge, and a 10,000-pipe, 100-stop organ (he was no kin to the Hammond organ family); of hepatitis; in Gloucester...