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...credit to 6 2-year-old Dr. Laubach, inventor of the each-one-teach-one method. A Congregationalist missionary who went directly to the Philippines from his studies at Princeton and Columbia, he has spent more than 30 years teaching millions of illiterates, from India to Ecuador, to read & write their own languages. Now in Cairo, Dr. Laubach will set up literacy charts in 20 languages and dialects to keep the each-one-teach-one ball rolling through Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...four-line rhyme that has had a continuing vogue in England, named for its inventor, mystery writer E. C. (for Clerihew) Bentley (Trent's Last Case). Sample Clerihew by Miller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sir Bill | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...years ago the Navy picked up an idea which Inventor Douglas F. Winnek had been working on since 1932. Winnek uses a camera with a lens wider than the distance between the human eyes, and takes his pictures on a special film covered with tiny, transparent ridges. These act somewhat like lenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trivision | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...trivision" negatives (as the Navy calls them) are reversed, the foreground appearing to be the background. But printed on special "trivision paper" they are startlingly lifelike. The process is not yet ready for demonstration. But Inventor Winnek and the Navy hope to adapt it to colored lithography and to movies, so that human beings on paper or screen will be almost warm with life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trivision | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...Inventor. Hammond Jr. began inventing before he got used to long pants. At 16, he produced a gasoline engine (which flopped). Most of his inventions were concerned with radio and its neighboring fields. In 1912, when he was 24, he steered a boat by radio control from Boston to Gloucester. He collaborated with Alexander Graham Bell on long distance telephony, pioneered in vacuum tubes, frequency modulation, television. In 1933, the U.S. Government paid $750,000 for Hammond patents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Having Wonderful Time | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

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