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...York Navy Yard in Brooklyn, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, son of the inventor, grasped the controls of a pneumatic riveting machine, shot a flaming bolt into a 70-ft. section of the keel of the North Carolina, first battleship the U. S. has built since the West Virginia was commissioned in 1923. North Carolina's proud Lieutenant Governor Wilkins P. Horton shot the second rivet and the Yard's new commandant, Rear Admiral Clark H. Woodward, dispatched the third. Before newsreel cameramen had picked up their equipment to depart, a battery of professional riveters...
...South, publishers get out books on "evolution" but do not use that word, speak of "development." The Texas textbook committee once refused to approve a biography of Thomas A. Edison lest they be attacked by a Fundamentalist Baptist, Rev. J. Frank Norris, who hated and feared that atheist inventor. In Louisiana an Elson Reader was banned because of this Mother Goose couplet...
...past and the present are coexistent, 2) if one could live one's life over again, second thought choices might not bring more happiness, they might bring less. To prove both points the play provides some metaphysical speeches and a time-machine. Stephen Minch (Burgess Meredith), inventor who has made a fortune for his employer, has reached his peak with the invention of a "star-wagon" which will return its driver to any desired point in the past. Nagged by his wife Martha (Lillian Gish) for his resigned poverty and fired by his employer, the inventor throws the switch...
...staging of an automobile ride, choir rehearsal and picnic in the year 1902 makes the second act a riot of Americana. Burgess Meredith proves himself the most accomplished of young U. S. actors, neatly running the gamut of middle age and youth, inspired duffer and embittered worldling. As the inventor's crony, Russell Collins (The Group Theatre's "Johnny Johnson") gives a compelling exhibition of bluff, whimsical idealism. Lillian Gish portrays girlhood and harassed middle age with charm and feeling, gives the finest performance of her stage career. With its deftly assembled cast enjoying a field...
...Inventor of the abdominal hood is Bernard Liebel, 22, a summer student at Toronto's Banting (insulin) Institute. The torso hood is a Swedish device modified by Dr. Claude Ellis Forkner. the doctor who transported paralyzed Frederick B. Snite Jr. from Peiping to Chicago in a standard "iron lung" (TIME. June 14). This week, as cinema photographers record the scene, young Snite expects to change over to the new torso respirator. If all goes well, he will be able for the first time in a year to sit propped up in bed, to have a tub bath...