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Fraser is so far best known as the spoofing inventor of Henry Paget Flashman (Flashman, 1969, and Royal Flash, 1970), the compleat bounder. He thus comes to the reivers with an acute understanding of unsporting behavior. It stands him in excellent stead. After Henry VIII defeated the Scots at Solway Moss in 1542, for example, the fleeing survivors were held for ransom by their own border countrymen...
...country's most controversial neWWs-boy. To Ed Sullivan he was a "cringing coward"; to the California American Legion he was "America's No. 1 Patriot." Ben Hecht said he wrote "like a man honking in a traffic jam." H.L. Mencken lauded him as "an assiduous inventor and popularizer of new words and phrases." Lord Mountbatten and J. Edgar Hoover wrote him fan letters. Ethel Barrymore wondered, "Why is he allowed to live...
...primarily of a thumbnail-sized gas sensor. Whenever the presence of a potentially combustible gas closes the circuit between a pair of tiny electrodes, a yellow panel light flashes. This indicates that the Sniffer has been offended and will cut the ignition in ten seconds-just enough time, its inventor calculates, to allow the motorist to pull off the road...
...from Minsk clambered out of steerage class and onto the hardscrabble streets of Manhattan. Before he died last week at 80, David Sarnoff rose to rule one of the last great personal autocracies in U.S. industry, the $3.3 billion-a-year RCA Corp. Though he was neither scientist nor inventor, he probably did more than any other American to bring radio, television and color TV to the masses. With considerable justification, "General" Sarnoff* cast himself as the father of the entire electronic-communications industry. "In a big ship sailing in an uncharted sea," he would say, "one fellow needs...
...June 6, 1969, after numerous cobalt treatments for throat cancer, Mrs. Dunlap S. Garceau, widow of an inventor of medical instruments, died. Her will, drawn up by Wright and executed eight days before her death, bequeathed 200 shares of Standard Oil (N.J.), then worth $15,500, to Wright's wife; the Garceau house, land and personal possessions to Wright's mother; $25,000 each to Wright's two adolescent daughters; and $35,000 cash to Wright's wife "to be used by her in her sole discretion for library purposes and for the arts...