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...responsible for this attempt to reform New Jersey is Boss Hague's fellow Democrat and archfoe, former Governor Charles Edison, 54, son of Inventor Thomas A. Edison and onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy. From the start of his three-year term in 1941, smart, mild-mannered Governor Edison defied Hague more openly than any other governor has dared to. He dented Hague's armor badly, using the old state constitution as his bludgeon. Edison stumped the state, denouncing the inefficient basic law. Before his term was up, he got the people to vote for the submission...
...Diego, I Love You (Universal), a cheerfully goofy little picture about a bad inventor who made good, is almost as funny as it is foolish. Much of it involves the efforts of lush Louise Allbritton to sell Father Edward Everett Horton's improved life-raft to Executive Jon Hall, "the most girl-shy millionaire in Who's Who." In the course of convincing him that she loves him for himself alone, she leads Mr. Hall through some unusually footloose footage. She gets him ensnarled in a brawl in a low-life barbershop which specializes in reconditioning shiners...
...A.C.S.'s President Thomas Midgley Jr. complained that scientific progress was suffering from "too many old men at the helm." An inventor who made his most important discovery (tetraethyl lead in gas) at 33, Dr. Midgley, now 55, cited cases (e.g., Sir William Perkin's invention of aniline dyes at 18) to show that invention is a young man's game. Said he: "Every executive who has lived beyond the age of 40 is guilty, to some slight extent, of not getting out of the way of the younger...
Steaming Stanley. At 19, slim, black-haired Stanley Hiller is a veteran inventor. An inventor's son (his father flew a plane of his own design in 1911), Stanley began to tinker with tools at five. At ten he built a toy car which he drove around the streets of Berkeley, Calif.; at twelve he invented a miniature racing auto 19 inches long. Powered by a gas engine and guided by a cable, it sped around a circular course at 107 m.p.h. At 17, as head of his own company, Hiller Industries, Inc., Stanley was running...
...year-old inventor may have made aviation history last week. In San Francisco, before an audience of Navy officers and aviation bigwigs, including Grover Loening, head aircraft consultant of WPB, young Stanley Hiller Jr. demonstrated a helicopter of startling maneuverability. He held the machine steady in the air just a foot off the ground, turned it around while hovering, landed the craft within a foot of its take-off point...