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...otherwise empty pockets the ownership papers to the 63-foot Winnetta, a 35-year-old schooner which in her $75,000 prime had once raced her sticks off on the Great Lakes, in more recent years had been the little-used property of fiftyish John S. Nairns, an inventor preoccupied with developing an airscrew for propelling ships. Inventor Nairns had sold the Winnetta's motor, but he still had the masts and sails in storage. Last week, lucky Tex scrubbed and buffed away at the Winnetta, dreamed of starting off round the world...
Died. Arthur William Savage, 83, inventor of the first repeating sporting rifle adaptable to smokeless powder ammunition (the Savage 303), founder of the Savage Arms Corp. of Utica, N. Y.; by his own hand (with a Smith & Wesson .44); in San Diego, Calif...
...physical possibility, few aeronautical visionaries are prepared to admit the feasibility of a 900 m.p.h. airplane, 120 m.p.h. faster than the speed of sound, twice as fast as man has ever flown, nearly thrice as fast as man has traveled on land (see p. 47). But Russian-born Inventor Ivan Eremeef, Philadelphia protégé of Orchestra-man Leopold Stokowski, was last week tinkering with a model for just such a craft. Inventor Eremeef's wingless, finned, torpedo-like conception, carrying two small cannon and four hours' fuel supply, would zip 1,000 miles or more...
...best-known autobiographies of U. S. immigrants-Edward Bok's autobiography, Michael Pupin's From Immigrant to Inventor, Louis Adamic's Laughing in the Jungle and My America-have been written by immigrants from the smallest countries: Holland, Serbia, Yugoslavia. With publication last week of Stoyan Christowe's autobiography, this unexplored coincidence still held good. Son of a Bulgarian village sage, stocky, fierce-looking, congenial Author Christowe, now 40, is known as a contributor to the defunct, highbrow Dial, author of two well-received books, Heroes and Assassirts, an account of Macedonian terrorists, and Mara...
Nine Chains to the Moon is not Author Fuller's first demonstration of his invincible faith in man's future. Designer of the famed Dymaxion- house, inventor of the three-wheeled, streamlined Dymaxion car, Buckminster Fuller is a New Englander who looks like a businessman and talks like a prophet of the coming technological millennium. A Harvard alumnus, he decoded radio messages in the navy during the War, became a manufacturer of molds for reinforced concrete afterwards, and in 1927, when he lost control of his business, settled in Chicago slums for a year to work...