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Died. John Robert Gregg, 80, inventor of Gregg shorthand; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. He developed his own shorthand as a note-taking schoolboy in Ireland, published his first manual at 20, came to the U.S. to teach five years later, lived to see his system taught in an estimated 95% of U.S. commercial and public schools...
Professor Einstein does not say that the book is clear, or well-written, or lucid. It is not. The book is the work of a Scottish physicist, Lancelot Whyte, 51, who was chairman and managing director of Power Jets, Ltd. from 1936 to 1941. With Frank Whittle, inventor of gas turbine jet propulsion, he shared in the development of jet propulsion. Whyte is a scientist who believes that science has a social duty to perform...
...Kitty Hawk, famed first "aeroplane" of the Wright Brothers, might end up in the Smithsonian Institution after all. Twenty years ago, in a huff at the Smithsonian, Inventor Orville Wright gave the Kitty Hawk to London's Science Museum. Last week Wright's executors dug up a 1943 letter telling the British that he wanted it back. Any time, said the British...
Though Jimmy was playing boogie 30 years ago and could make a fair claim to being its inventor, he and his compositions had been almost forgotten, even by the jazzophiles. Jimmy had never tried to remind them. He had hit the big time before he was 15, playing the Orpheum circuit, and even a command performance before Britain's King & Queen. Then he got interested in baseball, spent his days playing with the Chicago Ail-Americans and his nights playing piano in the city's brass-spittooned bars, sometimes for drinks, sometimes for money. Gradually, he evolved...
Died. Orville Wright, 76, co-inventor of the airplane; of a heart ailment and lung congestion; in Dayton (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...