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Players and Program. The emiriton is merely an instrument. At last week's premiere, none of the performers was yet a Heifetz or a Kreisler. Co-inventor* Alexander Antipovitch Ivanov was best. Others included a tall man who never seemed to move or be moved, two girls of about 17 who swayed ecstatically with their work and two nervous young men who looked as if they ought to stop fooling around with emiritons and get out and play football...
This week the sight's inventor, Java-born Carl L. Norden, was to be awarded the Holley Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for his invention. Meantime, the Navy announced that Inventor Norden had a collaborator, Captain Frederick I. Entwistle, assistant research chief of the Navy's Bureau of Ordnance. Captain Entwistle, who joined Norden in his experiments in 1928, shares the patents and the credit for the final model...
...late Nikola Tesla was a spectacular eccentric scientist and showman. Sure that his name will outlive Thomas Edison's, Tesla's admirers hold that he and Michael Faraday were the greatest electrical discoverers of modern times. Last week one admirer, who according to the inventor himself understood him "better than any man alive," published the first Tesla biography-Prodigal Genius (Ives Washburn; $3.75). The author: John J. O'Neill, science editor of the New York Herald Tribune...
Tesla, who considered Edison a mere inventor, not a scientist, quit in 1885 when Edison refused to pay $50,000 Tesla thought he had been promised for his work. In 1912 Tesla refused the Nobel prize because it was to be shared with Edison. Only after long argument was Tesla prevailed upon to accept the Edison Medal for his achievements...
Died. Loreto Santarelli, 57, soft-tongued, Italian-born maître d'hôtel of London's big, swank Savoy since 1926, inventor of Britain's war-famed Woolton Pie (crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...