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...Noldes. Daumiers and Lautrecs, Chagalls and Picassos. But the real star of the show was one of Munich's own sons. His works are a bit clumsy, and he was not really much of an artist. Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, born in 1771, was lithography's inventor...
Lunatic Expert. Chosen to compile the book were Norris and Ross McWhirter, twin grandsons of Scottish Inventor William McWhirter, who built the first in dicating voltmeter and ammeter. At ten, the twins' favorite reading was Whitaker's Almanack; in the ensuing 26 years, they have added to their fund of statistics at Maryborough and Oxford, and as newsmen in London. In a scant 16 weeks, the McWhirters finished the book, and in the process they found an alibi for Sir Hugh: some game birds, they discovered, fly at a hard-to-hit 72 m.p.h...
Ever since it was founded in 1853 by a group of wealthy New Yorkers (among them: Inventor Peter Cooper) to provide professional management for their estates, U.S. Trust has been a rich man's bank.Today, its personal trust funds and investment portfolios total 8,000, plus endowment funds for such schools as Princeton, Amherst, Middlebury, Williams, and New York University-all told amounting to more than $6 billion in assets. The portfolios of its customers put U.S. trust among the top half-dozen stockholders of such corporate giants as American Telephone & Telegraph, International Business Machines, Standard Oil of California...
Archipenko's father was a mildly successful inventor in the Russian city of Kiev, and invention has held a fascination for Archipenko all his life. While the father thought of an invention as a mechanical problem, the son saw it also as an esthetic one, an assemblage of forms. By the time he moved to Paris at the age of 21, young Archipenko was not only a trained engineer but an accomplished sculptor as well...
...paragraphs are hard to sell because editors are accustomed to swiping them." Vaughan is proudest of one of his paragraphs that was widely plagiarized and wound up as a footnote to history: "One day I wrote that President Millard Fillmore had lent encouragement to Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, and that out of gratitude Morse had named the characters of the Morse code, dot and dash, after Fillmore's children, Dorothy and Dashiell. That turned up in a national magazine [Coronet] as a perfectly straight bit of historical fact. It isn't given...