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...area of Southern Vermont and New Hampshire. Typical is the so-called Monadnock Region, with its cluster of unchanged and unchanging New England towns ?Peterboro, Dublin, Hancock, Jaffrey. Those with homes in the area include Chicago Newspaper Scion Marshall Field III, Harlow Shapley, famed Harvard astronomer, Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera...
Died. Claud H. Foster, 92, Ohio inventor and philanthropist, who in 1911 patented the first practical automobile shock absorber, netted nearly $10 million selling the device to Detroit's automakers before he sold his company to Otis & Co., investors, for $4,000,000 in 1925, whereupon he retired to a $3,500 bungalow on Lake Erie, emerging in 1952 to host a huge dinner party at which he distributed $3,879,700 to 16 charitable and educational Cleveland organizations because "too many institutions get their money from dead men"; of cerebral arteriosclerosis; in Bellevue, Ohio...
Died. Carl Lukas Norden, 85, inventor of World War II's famed Norden bombsight, a Dutch engineer who in 1904 emigrated to the U.S., in the early 1920s developed the first successful plane-arresting gear for U.S. aircraft carriers (the Saratoga and Lexington), with partner Theodore H. Barth was commissioned by the Navy to devise a better bombsight and in 1939 finally produced a compact (12 in. by 19 in.), though enormously complex, $25,000 instrument so precise that U.S. bombardiers could, as they loved to brag, literally "hit a pickle barrel from 20,000 ft."; of pneumonia...
...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...