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When he arrived at the Los Angeles airport, the merchandiser telephoned his home office to get in touch with the inventor and see if the needle really worked. When it came to the attention of the promotion head of A. & S., she knew exactly what the merchandising manager was talking about. She had read the identical item in TIME on the train returning from her vacation in Florida, and was equally excited about...
Meanwhile, the inventor, Mrs. Ruth Lawrence, wife of a U.S. Army colonel, was hearing from some other interested parties. Said she last week to our Birmingham correspondent: "After the story appeared in TIME we were deluged with telegrams, orders and letters. I had to hire two stenographers to answer them. There were literally trunksful of letters inquiring about the ripper. The money sent to us in envelopes was amazing, but it was all sent back because we were not in production at the time. There were also phone calls and cables from Italy, South America, Japan, Alaska, Germany, and other...
...Lawrence says that she became mechanically-minded in self-defense. Her father was a natural-born inventor with a long string of posthole diggers, folding lawn chairs, etc. to his credit. He was also in the rubber-tired buggy business, and his shop was a maze of band and rip saws and a big, power-driven sewing machine, which Mrs. Lawrence learned to operate when she was nine years old. Her father incidentally, was descended from a Parisian tailor who emigrated...
Soon after graduating from Amherst College, Gilbert fell in love with Elsie May Bell, daughter of Telephone Inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who was president of the National Geographic Society. When Bell offered Grosvenor a job on the Geographic, he took it (just to be near
Announcement of the new system was made last night by its inventor, Robert F. Bales, assistant professor of Sociology...