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Died. Dr. Theron W. Kilmer, 74, child specialist, inventor of famed "Kilmer Test" for spotting drunken drivers by examining heart action, breathing, equilibrium and handwriting; of heart disease; in Rockville Centre...
...juked it up was Dr. Stephen E. Epler, first heard from as the inventor of six-man football.* An energetic young (36) Navy veteran, he had been made counselor on veterans' education in Oregon. He found a home for himself at Vanport, began mulling how to get all the applicants into Oregon's overcrowded colleges. Vanport City gave him the idea: "Why try to take housing centers to the colleges? Let's bring colleges to the housing centers...
...article, designed by shortage and marketed by need, appeared in Berlin's battered stores last week. It was a pocket sundial. Named after the inventor, thin, blond ex-Scientist Dr. Rudolf Rueter, the Rueter Watch consists of a Plexiglas-covered metal disc with turned-up edges and a magnetized dial which automatically faces north. A brass needle in the dial's center casts its time-telling shadow on two rows of figures (one for summer, one for winter) with half-hour accuracy. Berliners were gladly paying 25 marks ($2.50) for it; regular watches are not officially on sale...
...inventor, Cambridge Chemist Harry Hurst, 34, claimed that he had got rid of the defects in DDT (see below). DDT is 1) slow, and 2) deadly to good as well as bad insects. Dr. Hurst said that some of his mixtures seem to be highly selective, attacking pests but leaving useful insects unharmed. He had also found Activated DDT lethal to some bothersome insects, notably cockroaches, which are not bothered much by DDT alone...
...Goes My Love (Skirball-Manning, Universal), based on Hiram Percy Maxim's reminiscences of his inventor parent (A Genius in the Family), is a sort of utility-grade Life with Father, told chiefly in terms of what it does to Mother. Time & place: Brooklyn, in its mansard-capped prime. Since Son Percy (Bobby Driscoll) is a regular little heller and Father (Don Ameche) a regular social booby trap, life is anything but simple for Mother (Myrna Loy). Finally one of Percy's pranks almost causes her to lose her second baby. But by dint of widespread praying...