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...California, the Lions Clubs are buying lighted walking sticks ($7.50 apiece, with batteries) and giving them away to the blind. The inventor: William A. Caustin of San Jose, who could not forget the sight of a blind man trying to cross a busy street at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Sep. 10, 1951 | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

Died. Henry Howard, 83, chemical engineer, inventor (89 patents) and yachtsman; of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. During World War I, he organized 7,000 drugstores as merchant marine enlistment centers, gained his greatest fame among amateur deep-sea sailors for his articles and books (Charting My Life) about his adventures aboard the yawl Alice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 3, 1951 | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...Have No Idea." Inventor Ross, 31, who got his technical training as a radar expert after volunteering for the British Army in World War II, made most of his new device himself from spare parts and equipment he dug up at Seattle's Intervox Corp. (electronic products), where he is chief engineer. Last week he seemed a little surprised at all the excitement he had caused in the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Underwater Radar | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

Married. Preston Sturges, 52, screen director (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek), writer (Strictly Dishonorable), inventor (a kissproof lipstick); and Ann Margaret ("Sandy" Mellen) Nagle, 21, actress; he for the fourth time, she for the second; at his restaurant in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 27, 1951 | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...Mynheer von Stoendyck, a Belgian inventor whose perfect command of the English language is simply not credited by his British hostess. She helpfully translates everything that is said to him into broken English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Edwardian Laughter | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

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