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Perhaps the most lurid new system is that of the graphic thinker, particularly as demonstrated in the "graph for all occasions" (reproduced here). The feeling has been expressed that this graph can be used to prove almost anything. Its inventor does not himself know what it actually shows but is certain that it might prove all sorts of things. The graph uses letters, specifically Greek letters, to label its parts in order to retain the maximum number of possible meanings and to give it that scholarly tone, so important when attempting to baffle a grader. Under no circumstances should this...
...Austrian Inventor and Munitions Salesman Antoine Gazda (who "beat an undesirable alien rap and got out, with McGrath's assistance...
...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...
Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, naturalist, writer, was one of the wisest and most universal of men. This spring and summer, to celebrate the sooth anniversary of his birth, a few remaining fruits of Leonardo's vast labors are being exhibited in England, France, Italy...
Marriage Revealed. Henry Jacques Gaisman, 82, wealthy inventor (swivel chairs, razors, men's belts) and retired chairman of the board (since 1938) of the Gillette Safety Razor Co.; and his former nurse, Catherine Vance, 33; both for the first time; last month, in Hartsdale...