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Died. Dr. William M. Burton, 89, onetime (1918-27) president of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, inventor (in 1913) of the Burton cracking process, which doubled the potential yield of gasoline available from crude oil and made mass motoring possible; of a heart ailment; in Miami...
...artist." Furthermore, though he has probably tickled more risibilities than Charlie Chaplin, he does not really have much sense of humor. Walt Disney is a genuine hand-hewn American original with the social adze-marks sticking out all over; he is a garage-type inventor with a wild guess in his eye and a hard pinch on his penny, a grassroots genius in the native tradition of Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford...
...Riter joined Wall Street's Dillon, Read & Co. in 1919, became a member of the firm in 1927, and left during the Depression to start Riter & Co. While doing some financial work for Edison, he became interested in expanding the company, which was formed to produce the famed inventor's products. In 1946 he persuaded former New Jersey Governor Charles Edison, son of the inventor, to offer the firm's stock publicly as the first step. He became president in 1950, when sales were $30 million, boosted them to $41.5 million last year by encouraging new products...
...named (some claim) from a slang word used by Cuban sugar cane workers meaning "shake it." The Boston crowd (1,140 Paid admissions) was shaking it with glee. So were the bright-sleeved musicians on the band stand and their round-faced, sleepy-eyed leader Perez Prado, self-confessed inventor of the mambo. In his dress suit and stiff shirt Prado never even blinked at the deafening brass screeches that threatened to shatter the red neon tubes framing the ceiling. Only 50-odd couples actually danced and of them only a hard core of eight couples were in full mambo...
Draftsman's Apprentice. In Birdham, England, Alan Tamplin, inventor of a 54-gallon, radio-controlled beer barrel (at the flick of a dial it rolls out of the house and across the lawn to where the operator is sitting, fills his glass, returns to the house), permitted a friend to operate the barrel, suffered a crushed toe when the barrel rolled out of control...