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...inventor of a twelve-tone harmonic system still lives in Los Angeles, though he was retired from the U.C.L.A. faculty nearly two years ago. ("I was 70. The actual age of retirement is 65, but they made an exception. But even so ... I could have gone on; it was cruel.") He is finishing the last act of an opera about "Aaron as the statesman and Moses the philosopher," which he laid aside in 1932 because he got out of the mood. In the next five years he intends to complete five books, two of them on counterpoint. He usually...
...such channels, Cleanliness and Godliness is a first-rate literary essay, overflowing with sanity and bubbling with wit. Its heroes include Moses (whose laws, says Author Reynolds, were based less on divine sanction than on pamphlets issued by the Egyptian Ministry of Health); Elizabethan Sir John Harington, the inventor of the water-closet ("his name [is] writ in water"), and Victorian Sir Edwin Chadwick (he popularized glazed earthenware drains...
...Greenwich Village laboratory, John Vincent Lawless Hogan, founder and president of New York's WQXR* and a topflight inventor since 1910, demonstrated his new facsimile newspaper transmitter and receiver. Plugged to an FM radio, his recorder rolled out a 9½-by-12-inch newspaper like a paper towel, 500 words a minute, 16 pages an hour. No linotype, press or delivery boy was needed; everything on the pages was broadcast free. It came in clear as an advertiser's tear sheet...
...November 1944 Inventor Hogan unloaded half his duties at WQXR to devote more time to facsimile research begun some twelve years ago (TIME, Feb. 14, 1944). He got 20 broadcasters (twelve of them publishers) to put up $250,000 for his experiments. Now his finished product looks so good that General Electric is tooling up for production, expects units on the market within a year...
Died. George Washington, 75, Belgian-born inventor of soluble G. Washington coffee, spare-time keeper of a private zoo; in Mendham...