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Gifts from the Du Pont company will finance a new research professorship in chemistry, the University announced yesterday. The annual professorship will be named for Wallace Home Carothers, inventor of nylon, and instructor here...
Carl G. Strandlund, inventor of the Lustron prefabricated house and one of the most unsuccessful big businessmen in the nation, did little to mend matters. He claimed angrily that RFC Director Walter L. Dunham of Detroit (who said he had a heart condition which would permit his appearing privately, but would kick up if he talked in public) had participated with Young and others in a scheme to seize control of the Lustron Corp. Dunham, said Strandlund, put on pressure to make him sell 60,000 of his shares of Lustron stock "without compensation." Strandlund said he refused, and that...
Basketball's Inventor...
...Washington, the Government announced that patent No. 2,540,144 had been granted to Engineer-Inventor Emery Stern for a device which will "automatically release" various scents from containers built into TV sets. Set off by electrical impulses, the odors are intended to be appropriate to the type of program, e.g., peach blossom for romance...
Died. Albert Summers Howell, 71, co-founder of Bell & Howell Co. (movie cameras), inventor, in moviemaking's pioneer days, of devices and techniques which took the flicker out of movies; in Chicago...