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...Hague-hating Governor Charles Edison cried: "Persecution . . . outrage!" Then Governor Edison set about to prove his charge. To his 24-room Llewellyn Park home one night he invited a group of investigators. He took them to a paneled, second-floor study lined with books and pictures of his inventor-father...
...friend and business associate, Arthur Walsh, 47, manager of Governor Edison's successful campaign in 1940. At 19, Arthur Walsh played the violin for Thomas A. Edison, frequently played his instrument alongside Edison recordings to demonstrate their tonal quality. At Thomas Edison's funeral he played the inventor's favorite,I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen. He is now executive vice president of Thomas A. Edison Inc. and a director of six Edison subsidiaries. His appointment brought praise even from New Jersey's Republican Senator Albert W. Hawkes. From the tight-lipped Hague organization...
Hero. In Washington, a patent was awarded to the inventor of a handbag with a translucent bottom, which makes it possible for a woman to discover what is in the bag by holding it up to the light, instead of disemboweling it on a restaurant table...
News about a machine to fight the dreaded boll weevil is spreading fast through the cotton country. The inventor is Alex R. Nisbet, 83, a spry, glittering-eyed, retired cotton planter who for the past few years has been tinkering around a machine shop in Plainview, Tex. The Department of Agriculture in Washington hao never heard of him, but farmers in his neighborhood have gathered that he proposes to blow the weevils off the cotton. Last week he was ready to talk...
...Inventor Nelson began to make guns in his garage. At once he found a feverish market for them in the coast's mushrooming shipyards-at $500 apiece. Reason: with the old method, a fast worker could weld 40 studs in eight hours; with the rocket gun, 1,000. (A Liberty ship has 10,000 studs to hold hangers for wireways and pipes, plastic decking, etc. in place...