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...formed up at dawn, hundreds of miles east of their targets. His chief of staff, Rear Admiral Wilder Du Puy Baker, is a grandfather, but McCain addressed him as "Son." He addressed everybody on the flag bridge as "Son." One of them was Commander John S. ("Jimmy") Thach, inventor of the Navy fighter plane technique for Jap-killing, known as the "Thach weave...
Birth of a Crusader. A few months later in Manhattan an itinerant Yankee cobbler, house painter, fiddler, schoolmaster and inventor named Rufus Porter boldly started a weekly called Scientific American. Last week Scientific American, publishing its 100th anniversary issue, paused to celebrate an eventful career...
...crusader from birth, the magazine has been in the thick of the hurly-burly of U.S. invention. Through its Manhattan editorial office trooped Morse, Gatling, the Maxim brothers, Edison, many another great inventor. Scientific American used to maintain a patent advice agency which, besides giving the magazine many a news scoop, presided benevolently over inventors, encouraging the sincere, diligently exposing the fakers. (Typical case: a "perpetual motion" machine which baffled everybody until Scientific American's editors X-rayed it, discovered inside a clocklike apparatus which could be wound by key through a simulated worm-hole...
...down to a circulation of some 50,000 (it once had 75,000), Scientific American has dropped its crusading, confines itself to semi-technical reporting of U.S. industrial research. But it is still enthusiastic about the future of U.S. invention. In the lead article for its anniversary issue, famed Inventor Charles F. Kettering* predicts "limitless frontiers" for U.S. science in the next 100 years...
...famed Norden bombsight is so valued by the U.S. air forces that for long it was never left in a bomber, was always moved under armed guard. Last week, a Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan charged that Carl L. Norden Inc. (Inventor Norden is no longer associated with the company) took even greater precautions to protect its monopoly on manufacture of the sight. Result: production by other companies of the badly needed sight was blocked. The jury indicted the company, President Theodore H. Barth and Vice-President Ward B. Marvelle, along with Commander John D. Corrigan, U.S.N.R., Robert H. Wells...