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...Tass, the Soviet news agency: an "everlasting" paint which its inventor, Russian Scientist Stepan Tumanov, says will resist the weather and keep its original fresh color for "thousands of years." Tumanov first made his paints of crushed jewels (rubies, emeralds, etc.), then substituted a cheaper material, colored corundum, which seemed to work just as well. He says his paint has passed all chemical and heat tests with high marks, expects it to be widely used by artists-especially makers of porcelain and stained glass and decorators of monuments...
...Norman Myer, Melbourne department-store owner: a folding crutch which can be converted into a chair when its user wants to stop and rest. Mr. Myer bought the rights from the Australian inventor in order to present the device royalty-free to United Nations' war veterans...
Died. Sir Ambrose Fleming, 95, one of Britain's foremost electrical scientists and pioneer in radio's development, inventor of the diode valve (predecessor of the radio tube), designer of the wireless signal apparatus for Marconi's first transatlantic message in 1901; in Sidmouth, England. In 1933, when he was 83, stately Sir Ambrose took a 34-year-old bride, six years later emerged from retirement to attack scientific theories of evolution, affirmed his belief in the miracles and prophecies of the Bible...
I.C.S. officials and faculty are rightfully proud of the men they have helped to fame. Among them are the late Walter P. Chrysler, Curtiss-Wright President Guy Warner Vaughan, Rifle Inventor John C. Garand, Curtis Publishing Company's President Walter Fuller, the C.I.O.'s Philip Murray. Britain's famed Cartoonist David Low got his start in New Zealand with a four-year I.C.S. cartooning course. Recently I.C.S. received a grateful letter praising "the schooling which Dad got from your correspondence course. . . ." The writer: E. N, Eisenhower, brother of the Supreme Commander...
Died. Vincent ("Ben") Bendix, 62, massive, restless, auto-aero parts manufacturer, inventor of the first practical self-starter (1912), founder of Bendix Aviation Corp., president of Bendix Helicopter, Inc. (planning postwar mass production of four-passenger helicopter sedans); of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. Despite the vast success of his companies, personal reverses (real-estate projects, a whopping divorce settlement) sent him into bankruptcy...