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Stoppard's protagonist George Riley is a middleaged inventor whose inventions, like a tape recorder thay plays "Rule Britannia" when the clock strikes twelve, never seem to grab the public's fancy. As a result, he lives off ten shillings a week provided by his rambunctious 18-year old daughter Linda, who works in Fancy Goods at Woolworth's. He refuses to collect unemployment compensation; that is for the masses, not for an inventor. With a new ten-bob note every "Meatless Saturday," George heads for the pub, where the locals indulge his fantasies. He is a man lost...
Terry Wiles was born in 1962, and he was left at the hospital by his un married mother. Eventually a childless couple gave him a home: Len was a truck driver, amateur inventor, and-so it would seem- full-time saint who immediately opened his heart to the boy; his wife Hazel took some persuading. That was accomplished by Terry him self, who, despite his deformities, was beguilingly bright and witty. Always poor, often unemployed, Len nevertheless contrived a series of machines that enabled Terry to achieve some measure of normality...
DIED. André Dubonnet, 82, French aperitif heir, sportsman and inventor; of cancer; near Paris. The bon vivant son of Joseph Dubonnet, founder of the liqueur-making firm, André was an archetype of the moneyed adventurer, equally absorbed with beautiful women (he married four) and the high-speed excitement he sought as a World War I aviator, 1924 Olympic bobsledder and car racer. Besides driving for Hispano-Suiza and Bugatti in the 1920s, he funneled his fortune into various innovations, including a novel suspension system he sold to General Motors. In the 1960s, after the Dubonnet company merged with...
WILLIAM BURROUGHS came to Harvard in 1931 accompanied by a host of ancestral ghosts that included the inventor of the adding machine and General Robert E. Lee. "I hated the University and I hated the town it was in," he would later write. "Everything about the place was dead. The University was a fake English set-up taken over by the graduates of fake English public schools." After graduating in 1936 without honors, Burroughs bummed around the world, funded by a family trust. He applied to the OSS (Officer's Strategic Services) but was rejected because he had deliberately...
...like playing poker. When you have a good hand, you have to up the ante." So says Atlantic Richfield Vice President Robert Chambers, who feels that the oil company holds some winning cards and that the pot must be hiked. The bet: a $25 million futuristic long shot on Inventor Stanford Ovshinsky, 57, the president, founder and principal stockholder of Energy Conversion Devices of Troy, Mich. Arco, which initially gave ECD $3.3 million in funding last May, now believes the company's research hi new ways of converting sunlight into electricity has bright potential. Says Chambers: "The funding...