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Roller Derby is the name given by its inventor, a onetime cinema salesman named Leo ("Bromo") Seltzer, to the preposterous endeavor, by a group of mixed couples, to outdistance each other in a marathon race on roller skates. Promoter Seltzer invented Roller Derbies- entrance to which can be attained only by winning elimination races in the Seltzer Roller Derby Association, with 3,000 members at $2 each-a year ago, to replace his Walkathons which he said were beginning to grow vulgar. By last winter he had selected a group of teams who competed successively in Chicago (TIME...
...Science & Technology and Alderman of London; Sir Harold Hartley, round-faced research director of the London Midland & Scottish Railway; Sir Archibald Page, smart technician who is head of the County of London Electric Supply Co.; Mrs. Gertrude Ruth Ziani de Ferranti, widow of England's famed electrical inventor; France's Minister of Public Works Armand Galliot who is particularly interested in an automobile that will burn anthracite coal; Utility Tycoon Gustave Mercier whose poker-faced wit made power men merry; Holland's young Professor James Van Staveren with curly brown shovel-shaped beard; India...
...inventor Mack Rust: "We don't claim that this is the best possible cotton picker. But this machine today is a better cotton picker than the old Model T Ford was an automobile when it was first offered...
...world's most distinguished collector of modern paintings, Dr. Albert Coombes Barnes, arrived from Paris on the Normandie last week accompanied by his friend and collaborator, Miss Violette de Mazia, the manuscript of a new book and half a million dollars worth of pictures. Talking easily, the inventor of Argyrol announced...
...American Academy of Optometrists, and intoned: "Your means of livelihood you owe mostly to me." In a Vienna museum stands a statue of this medieval monk, with a pair of glasses in one hand and bearing this inscription: Here lies Salvina D'Armato degli Armati of Florence, the inventor of spectacles. May God forgive his sins...