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...some months ago, Mrs. Roosevelt casually remarked, mentioning no names, that she had tried on a pair of shoes which "make standing for hours a pleasure." After investigating, the radio MARCH OF TIME re-enacted on the air her White House fitting by the shoe's inventor, 54-year-old, Syrian-born Cobbler James Fikany. Last week, in Rochester, N. Y., Cobbler Fikany acknowledged the happy result. Deluged with orders from the U. S., Canada and England, he proudly signed articles for a $250,000 corporation. His backers hoped to expand the little Fikany business into an enterprise...
...Chicago, Inventor Cecil L. Snyder, 45, told his wife, Minnie, that he had thought up a plan that was going to make him $20,000,000. Because they were on relief, Mrs. Snyder promptly asked acting County Judge Albert E. Isley to commit him to an institution. In court the head of Cook County's Psychopathic Hospital and his assistant both testified that Snyder was insane. Taking the case into his own hands, Snyder explained his plan (to sue 28 States for infringement of a system he had invented for registering automobiles), declared it would return $20 for each...
Army chemists have experimented on 90 yards of wool (enough for about 50 shirts), consider the results satisfactory. Presumably the War Department, which can use the process royalty-free, will treat army uniforms, blankets and other woolen equipment with the solution. A few days after the patents were granted, Inventor Peakes had requests for detailed information from eight clothing manufacturers...
...hour, has four-inch rubber cleats on its tires which enable it to negotiate deep mud. According to one eyewitness report, it "cut sugar cane from ten to twelve feet tall . . . stripped it, topped it, bunched it in piles and collected in separate piles the tops for stock feed." Inventor Wurtele claims that it does the work of 50 to 60 field hands...
Three years ago Gerstle Mack's Paul Cezanne was published and accepted almost at once as a definitive biography. Painstaking and fully documented, it presented Cezanne as a great intuitive inventor in the art of painting; and its sympathetic account of the artist's crotchety life cleared the air of much second-rate chatter. Biographer Mack's new subject is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa,* who died of drink and exhaustion in 1901, aged 36, the greatest French master of line between Daumier and Picasso...