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...Said an R.S.P.C.A. inspector with finality: "Anyone who knows about boys will know that ... the mice will be prodded unmercifully to ginger them up." Britons tensed themselves for a finish fight. Then the iron curtain clanked down. Hobbies censored all news of mouseboat racing, refused to divulge even the inventor's name...
Charles F. Kettering, inventor and General Motors research chief, reached 70 in Loudonville, Ohio. The town's population (2,300) doubled with visitors, who saw a pageant, sang Happy Birthday, watched Kettering cut an 80-lb. cake. His message: "A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere...
...inventor: German Naval Surgeon Gerhardt Kuntscher...
Died. Fielding Harris ("Hurry Up") Yost, 75, versatile grand old man of football, inventor of many a dazzling play, developer of the fake place kick, canny director of shifty gridiron maneuver built around "a punt, a pass and a prayer"; longtime (1901-27) University of Michigan coach and athletic director (1921-41) whose point-a-minute teams made football history during the first five years of the century; of a gall-bladder ailment; in Ann Arbor, Mich...
Wilmoth Houdini (real name: Edgar Leon St.-Clair) calls himself King of Calypso, a title sought after by rivals with such imposing titles as The Lord Executor, The Lord Invader (Rum & Coca-Cola), The Senior Inventor, King Radio, Attila the Hun, The Growler and The Caresser. All of them are old hands at dashing off musical comments on world affairs and local scandals, in Latin-African rhythms as insistent as radio commercials, and in the oddly distorted British accent of the British West Indies...