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Salvation a la Munchausen. The first of them began in 1905 in Budapest. His father was a promoter and would be inventor who soon struck it rich with a "radioactive" soap. His mother was a hysteric who blew hot & cold until little Arthur had emotional chilblains. To make bad worse, Arthur turned out to be unusually short, yet something of a child prodigy too, "admired for my brains and detested for my character by children and teachers alike." He had little home training in the Jewish faith of his fathers, and early in life his belief in a personal...
...switch. Simultaneously, two cylinders began to turn, one in New York and one in ... Cleveland. Two hundred and seventy-six seconds later, a photographic film of President and Mrs. Coolidge, the original of which was 600 miles away, was ready for development in Manhattan . . . C. Francis Jenkins, a Washington inventor, has also transmitted photographs at a distance by radio instead of by telephone wires, and has even sent simple motion pictures by radio within a building. The A.T. & T. engineers say, however, that the possibility of transmitting action pictures of ball games, riots, prizefights, parades, etc. directly is almost negligible...
...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible fabric (TIME, April...
...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn spun out of whole cloth, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible fabric (TIME, April...
...Inventor Houdry has formed a company, Oxy-Catalyst Manufacturing Co., and rented a plant at Wayne, Pa. to turn out the catalytic units...