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...thread is woven into an imaginative cinematic pattern of slapstick and social comment. The chemist's discovery alarms both capital & labor, which move to suppress it for fear the delicate balance of the market will be upset. Calm and sanity finally return to the textile industry when the inventor's white suit of miracle cloth falls apart, leaving him standing in the street in shirttails and drawers, a ludicrous and forlorn figure...
Nickel Knack. Several Los Angeles industrial plants are installing the first of 1,000 vending machines to sell nickel-sized tablets called "Kevo-Etts." Four of the tablets, which contain sea kelp, soya, dextrose, yeast and pepsin, are said by their inventor to supply all the nourishment, vitamins and minerals of a complete meal. Price: 5? for four...
...simply a roll of paper on a stick. With a flick of the wrist the paper coil would shoot five feet into the air and snap back into position. Tigrett, an easygoing Southerner who had long made a hobby of buying up patents, tracked down the inventor, bought his patent for $100 plus royalties, and started producing the gadget in a small Chicago shop. Since then, 38-year-old John Tigrett has sold 15 million "Zoomerangs," and built a $2,000,000 annual toy business. This week fast-growing Toyman Tigrett put his 1952 models on sale. Among...
...burned-out light bulb, as Inventor Thomas Edison knew, uses no electricity. Therefore, Tom Edison made it a rule for his power companies to replace burned-out bulbs without charge. It was an invisible cost on the light bill, but it kept the customer happy-and kept him buying Edison's power. Obvious as Edison's wisdom was, it was lost on many of his successors. Almost alone among big utilities, Detroit Edison Co. still gives away light bulbs. Partly because of this and similar consumer service policies, Detroit Edison, already the sixth biggest U.S. power company...
...Music Festival, from "studies of the aurora borealis in Alaska to measurements of the velocity of light in California" and the 200-inch telescope on Palomar Mountain. Its fellowship programs have been a gigantic "gamble on talent" that have included such excellent bets as Enrico Fermi, Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Ralph Bunche, Historian Arnold Toynbee (for a future book on international relations), Lord Beveridge, scores of young writers, hundreds of refugee scholars-even Dr. Kinsey...