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Jaunty Lester Pence Barlow has pondered on how to make a living, how to redistribute wealth, how to make liquor bottles unrefillable. But what has mainly wrinkled his brow has been how to end war. Like a good inventor, he tried to solve his problem the easy way: a death-dealing explosive which would annihilate whole regiments, spoil everyone's stomach for further fighting. Last week little, stocky, 53-year-old Mr. Barlow traveled from his office in Baltimore, Md. to Washington, and bounded into a meeting of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. In a scarily matter-of-fact...
...boyhood does not seem enough to hold all the tortures the film Edison undergoes. If this picture has any influence on the Edison legend, the inventor of electric light will be thought of in future years as an inspired masochist...
...last Darryl F., Zanuck has glorified a chapter of America's past without the services of Don Ameche, and the result is a surprisingly pleasant though simple tale. Richard Greene's broad shoulders take on the burdens of an inventor, and as Robert Fulton he covers the New York waterfront of 1807 with punches and an English accent until his "follyboat" is a success. Although he suffers the common fate of Hollywood history-heroes and looks about half the forty-two years he should have, Greene does manage to show enough gusto and sincerity to make his role fill...
...mission-oak library tables were without a limp leather volume from Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft Shops in East Aurora, N. Y., which also flooded the land with such objets d'art as hammered copper book ends, goatskin table covers, leather pillows, mattresses, mission furniture, ferneries. As inventor of signed ads for Big Business, Fra Elbertus reached most millions of all. Sometimes he was called a combination of a dozen geniuses including Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo, Emerson and William Morris; other times, a combination of P. T. Barnum, Robert G. Ingersoll, Henry Ward Beecher...
...president, general manager and mechanical genius of this 48-year-old system-leathery, quixotic, aging (65) William James Moore. By geography and heredity Phoneman Moore was addicted to telephones. He was born in Alexander Graham Bell's home town of Brantford, Ontario. His cousin was Elisha Gray, co-inventor of the telephone. Not long after leaving Oberlin College in 1892 he patented an improved telephone transmitter, set about manufacturing it, built telephone lines, organized his own system. Today it grosses some $5,000 a month...