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Divorced. Ann Cooper Hewitt Gay Bradstreet Whitaker, 33, who once suffered national tabloid fame as the "sterilized heiress"; by her third husband, Mining Operator John Whitaker, 56; after six years; in Reno. Heiress Ann (daughter of Inventor Peter Cooper Hewitt) in 1936 filed a lurid suit (eventually dropped) charging that her mother had had her illegally sterilized...
...maid between the act of shooting grouse and angling for landlocked salmon." Grenadine, herself part Negro with Creole trimmings, grows up with a gorilla for a playmate; her first word, at seven months, is "man." She marries the governor of Havana, then becomes a slave trader, millionaire racehorse owner, inventor of the cigaret and, after the first 100 pages, dull to read about. Merely exaggerating the absurd is no sure way to hilarity; satire must make its own kind of sense and this makes little or none. Readers will admire Ruark's choice of target but deplore...
During most of his adult life, easygoing Earl S. Tupper, 40, has described himself as "a ham inventor and Yankee trader." By last week, one of his inventions-an unbreakable, flexible, shape-retaining plastic which can be moulded into all sorts of containers-was forcing him to temper the "ham" and drop the "trader" entirely...
Radio's predicament is bluntly described by such authorities as Inventor Lee De Forrest ("What have you done to my baby?"), and Columnist John Crosby, who declares simply that broadcasters do not own their own souls; they are mortgaged to the sponsors...
Larry Crosby, Bing's inventor brother, announced that he had built a mousetrap that was apparently no better (see cut). "I've had the thing for years," he confessed, "and I haven't even had a nibble, not even from a mouse...