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...clearly-and colorfully-the most notable television demonstration of the year. In CBS's Manhattan studio, Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, 39-year-old, Hungarian-born inventor of color television, unveiled equipment developed since V-J day. For an hour, an ingenious new receiving set was tuned in on a filmed fashion show and football game, a Disney color short. The broadcast was over ultra-high frequency, radar wave lengths. The reception, as vivid as a Van Gogh painting, made black-&-white television look antiquated. Boasted CBS: "the insurmountable obstacles" have been hurdled; in a year, if the demand...
Finally trapped by reporters last week, harassed Inventor Stiles said that the new hand will not be finished for another five weeks. It will be covered with a soft, lifelike, flesh-colored plastic which ought to look and behave like the real article...
Everybody was inventing something when Mark Twain was writing some of the greatest U.S. fiction ever penned; so Mark, to whom nothing American was alien, was bound to catch the fever. "An inventor is a poet-a true poet!" he cried, when his brother, Orion Clemens, invented a "modest little drilling machine." "To invent. . . shows the presence of the patrician blood of intellect-that 'round & top of sovereignty' which separates its possessor from the common multitude & marks him as one not beholden to the caprices of politics but endowed with greatness in his own right...
Pure English, Just Refined. I. A. Richards first became hipped on the idea of Basic 22 years ago when he collaborated with its inventor, Charles Kay Ogden, a fellow scholar at the University of Cambridge, on a tortuous book on semantics, called The Meaning of Meaning. Since then he has spent a good deal of time globe-trotting as Basic's chief agitator, wearing the benign smile of a zealot who is content with his life's work. When war broke out, he was at Harvard on a Rockefeller grant as a roving researcher on the problems...
Samuel F. B. Morse's grandson, Pianist Walter Morse Rummel, was blacklisted in the American zone in Germany as an ex-Nazi stooge. Born in Berlin to the daughter of the telegraph inventor's second wife, he had lived in the U.S. as a child, returned to Germany at 17, taken German citizenship in 1944. His mother once taught the Bible to President-to-be Teddy Roosevelt...