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...thousands of U.S. citizens who have tried to find a "system" for beating the ponies, one man found a sure-fire method. New York City police promptly squelched it, arrested the inventor...
Detectives said $6,000 worth of Layman's counterfeit tickets had been cashed at New York and Maryland tracks as practice for a cleanup in Florida this winter. Said disgusted "Inventor" Layman: "There goes our million bucks...
...collected wood dust is shipped east to plastics makers. "Wood flour forms the base for practically all the plastics," explains the machine's inventor, Engineer Frederick Kurt Kirsten of the University of Washington. "Up to now it has had to be ground-a laborious process-and much of it came from Norway and Sweden." Within a few weeks, a plywood factory in Portland, Ore. sold several carloads of wood dust, a profitable by-product of purifying...
Died. Dr. Hermann Walther Nernst, 77, inventor of the Nernst metallic filament lamp, link between the carbon lamp and the modern incandescent lamp; in Muskau, Germany...
These are Zuppkeisms. Last week their inventor, 62-year-old Robert Carl Zuppke, resigned after 29 years as head football coach at the University of Illinois. Thus stepped to the sidelines one of the most durable, most competent, most likable and most colorful characters in the history of U.S. football...