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...works shown no longer exists; it was a series of projections from a machine called Clavilux, which its inventor, Thomas Wilfred, has since dismantled. Fortunately, before doing so. he photographed the projections. Not an easy thing to do, as our lensmen learned when they tried to focus on the moving, blinking, flashing machines. Said Photographer Frank Lerner: "To give the idea of light in motion was a difficult assignment because there is no such thing as a norm." He repeatedly went back for retakes; his subjects never looked the same. "I came back so often that I began to feel...
...Britain's John Healey, 72, an inventor and former manager of a textile-processing business in London. In the past 14 years, he has developed his moving prismatic geometric light abstractions which are now exhibited as art and are also in use in London's University College Hospital to soothe patients...
...human eye, aided by magnifying lenses, for direct examination of tissues in which disease may be developing. The technique is called colposcopy (pronounced col-poss-cuppy), and its most ardent proponent is the University of Mississippi's Dr. Karl A. Bolten, who learned it from its inventor in Bolten's native Germany...
...news of the week into departments, hired researchers to provide background, and soon began to develop what came to be known as TIMEstyle. This was a fresh, sassy and sometimes impudent way of writing marked by double adjectives, alliteration, inverted sentences and frequent neologisms. Hadden was the chief inventor of TIMEstyle, and he peppered the young magazine with it. TIME called George Bernard Shaw "mocking, mordant, misanthropic," and Erich von Ludendorff "flagitious, inscrutable, unrelenting." It coined "Mussoliniland" for Italy and called drugstores "omnivenderous." When Red Grange appeared on TIME's cover, he was described as an "eel-hipped runagade...
...have to get your basic training from the time you are six until perhaps twelve or 13," says Trivia Champ Tulenko. "After that you refine your ability." He credits his success entirely to "my garbage-filled mind." But for Inventor Goodgold, the essence of Trivia is not so much in the facts themselves as the nostalgic recognition they evoke. "Trivia is concerned with tugging at the heartstrings," says Goodgold. "It's enjoyed by those who have misspent their youth and don't want to let it go. It's the least common cultural denominator...