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Among the guests were Painters Willem deKooning and Ben Shahn, Novelist Katherine Anne Porter, Poetess Marianne Moore, Architects Edward Durell Stone and Walter Gropius, Photographer Edward Steichen, Inventor Buckminster Fuller, Actors Alfred Lunt and Fredric March. Also invited but conspicuously absent was Playwright Arthur Miller, who, like Poet Robert Lowell on a similar occasion last June, sent his regrets, and for good measure sent Lyndon Johnson a nasty little note condemning U.S. policy in Viet...
...list of immigrants and their sons who helped to mold American art and industry, politics and science is endless. There were Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie (Scotland), Fur Trader John Jacob Astor (Germany), Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (Scotland), the Du Fonts from France and Yeast Tycoon Charles L. Fleischmann from Hungary. German-born Albert Einstein, Hungarian-born Edward Teller and Italian-born Enrico Fermi helped the U.S. to unlock the atom's secrets. There have been more immigrant musicians than one can shake a baton at, from Irving Berlin (Russia) and Victor Herbert (Ireland) to Artur Rubinstein (Poland) and Dimitri...
...tell the photographer whether the light is right. The company launched the camera in Canada last July, sold out practically all its first month's supply in one weekend, now has to ration its stocks to Canadian dealers. The Swinger says President Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid Land Camera, "will find its market among teenagers, young married people and families that want a second camera." To reach them better Polaroid will broaden its distribution system, sell its cameras in drugstores and college book stores for the first time. Film Passes Cameras. The real significance of the Swinger, however...
Died. Joshua Lionel Cowen, 85, inventor of the Lionel electric train, a boyhood tinkerer who got off on the right track by patenting the first flashlight at 19, a year later developed a crude battery-powered wooden train set that proved an instant hit with children's fathers, served as president (1901-45) and later board chairman (1945-57) of the U.S.'s biggest toy train company (sales in 1957: $18,776,862); of a stroke; in Palm Beach...
Died. Admiral Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith, 82, British World War I naval hero and inventor of the retractable periscope, who in 1915 took submarine Ell through the Dardanelles minefields into the Sea of Marmara, where in 96 days he sank 96 Turkish ships, for which he got the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military decoration; of a kidney disease; in Elgin, Scotland...