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Died. John Emanuel Leffler, 73, nefarious inventor, longtime Broadway showman; of coronary sclerosis; in Miami, Fla. At ten Leffler got a job passing out programs at Tony Pastor's, one rainy day picked up $4 in tips minding people's umbrellas, the next day invested the money in numbered brass tags. The result: hat-checking...
Died. Miller Reese Hutchison, 67, audio inventor (Dictograph, Klaxon horn, Acousticon for the deaf); of apoplexy; in Manhattan. Mark Twain was said to have observed that Hutchison invented the Klaxon horn to deafen people so they would have to buy Acousticons...
...After the war, Sturges returned to the Maison Desti. He knew a good deal about cosmetics, invented a kissproof lipstick. His mother, in England with a fourth husband, was on the rocks again. She claimed the business; he handed it over and went to work as a free-lance inventor. By the time he was 30 he was about as flat a failure as a man of his age and background could be. Then his appendix ruptured, and saved his life...
...each side. By means of triangulation and ingenious translating devices, distortions resulting from the oblique angles are corrected in the final print. The trimetrogon method, by making it possible to space charting flights 25 miles apart instead of only four to six, has enormously accelerated mapping. Last fortnight its inventor, Lieut. Colonel Gerald ("Colonel Fitz") Fitzgerald, Chief of the Air Force's aeronautical chart division, a baldish, twinkling Irishman, was awarded the Sherman Mills Fairchild plaque for his achievement...
...genial, ruddy Hugo's numerous publications today hold many important positions in the U.S. radio industry. They fondly call Gernsback "the old buzzard." At 59, Hugo presides over a shabby Manhattan office where he has a death mask of his good friend, the late, great, grandly eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla.* Hugo Gernsback has never made much money out of his astounding ideas...