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...Violinist Leopold Godowsky Jr.. Dagmar's brother, is co-inventor (with Leopold Mannes) of Kodachrome color film...
...gathering hue and cry proclaims that the academic professionals have been subsidizing undergraduates for half a century. Although this theory has received its latest boost from Devereux Josephs' Committee on Education beyond High School, its inventor and leading local proponent is Seymour Harris, who should know better...
...either Governor Faubus or the inventor of Sputnik...
Done up in a white tie and swallow-tailed coat, 56-year-old Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio, addressed Pope Pius XI on Feb. 12, 1931: "Holy Father, the world is listening. Speak." Said the Pope: "Listen, O heavens, listen, O earth, listen, all peoples, lend your ear all of you who inhabit the globe...
Died. Erie Palmer Halliburton, 65, cranky, crusty farm-boy-to-riches oil tycoon, inventor of new methods of oil-well cementing (his "jet mixer" paved the way for mass production of well casings); after a three-year lung illness; in Los Angeles. Once so broke his wife had to pawn her wedding ring, Halliburton got his break in 1919 when he controlled a wild oil well for the late Oklahoma Wildcatter "Wild Bill" Skelly. formed his own company in 1920 (the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co. last year grossed $176,464,666), spread his empire into many fields, including pioneer...