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...same class. Its originator, Dr. Alexander Martin Lippisch, 61, a top German airplane designer in World War II, was largely responsible for the delta wing and Nazi Germany's ME-163 rocket plane. His new "aerodyne," however odd-looking, cannot be laughed off as a crazy inventor's dream...
...Mason City, Iowa has tried another system. Its inventor: Associate Professor Nadine Fillmore of Coe College. Though Professor Fillmore does not ignore other methods of attacking words, she places a heavy emphasis on phonics. Mason City tested two groups of 17 pupils, found that after one semester, 14 of the 17 taught by the Fillmore method had gained anywhere from three-tenths of a month to four years and four months over their counterparts in a normal class...
...Garwood, NJ. has tried the Mae Carden system. This ignores pictures, makes pupils use new words and sentences and then break the sentences down into their logical parts. "Garden children," says Mae Garden, "read sentences, not words." The system stresses "functional grammar" with some phonics. All this, according to Inventor Garden, works wonders...
...Jersey's ex-Governor Charles Edison, son of matchless Inventor Thomas Alva Edison, took the wrappings...
...picture-in-a-minute" Polaroid camera, Inventor Edwin H. Land last week demonstrated a new invention: a film that delivers black-and-white transparencies (instead of standard prints) within 60 seconds after they are snapped. The transparencies, says Land, have probably ten times the light range of conventional prints, clearly reproducing the smallest details when projected onto a screen. Another advantage: the film is five times as fast as Eastman's high-speed TriX, can be used successfully under the worst lighting conditions...