Word: inventors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thomas E. Murray, a prominent Catholic layman and wealthy Manhattan engineer and inventor who ran New York City's big I.R.T. subway system for eight years. Murray, 58, was the first public trustee of John L. Lewis' multimillion-dollar United Mine Workers welfare fund until he tiffed with John L. and quit...
...world's gastronomic jargon was created in the 18th and 19th Centuries by log-rolling cooks to commemorate their masters' favorite dishes. Some European aristocrats were also amateur cooks and imposed their names on their concoctions, e.g., Count Stroganoff, a 19th Century Russian diplomat and inventor of Beef Stroganoff.* Sometimes chefs also designated dishes in honor of great events, e.g., Pheasant a la Holy Alliance...
...University is considering using it in an extracurricular course. The Institute of Logopedics in Wichita, Kans. is experimenting to see if it will help cure speech defects. For two years, Charles R. Elliott, psychologist at the University of North Carolina, ran tests with another pillow-mike apparatus which its inventor, bubbly little President Max Sherover of the Linguaphone Institute, calls a "cerebrograph." Psychologist Elliott found that a student who has been subjected to the cerebrograph can memorize a list of words (boy, egg, art, say, run, not, sir ...) faster than one who hasn...
...theory is that when a person sleeps, his subconscious is still open to suggestion and can therefore learn. To prove it, sleep-learning promoters, including Inventor Sherover, have been out collecting endorsements. Alexander (Victory Through Air Power) de Seversky declares that a sleep machine helped cure his Russian accent. Rudy Vallee is using one to learn lines and lyrics. One housewife solemnly reported that, by placing a machine under her husband's pillow, she had taught him to like salad...
Died. Alan Hale (real name: Alan Mac-Kahn), 57, veteran cinemactor (The Covered Wagon, Robin Hood), part-time inventor (a sliding theater seat); of pneumonia; in Hollywood...