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Died. Frankie McErlane, Chicago gangster, reputed inventor of the "one way ride"; of pneumonia; in Beardstown...
...public in The New Yorker last week with a description of a new painting in his bedroom, an autumn view of Sannois by Maurice Utrillo in his familiar, cool grey & white manner. News was the fact that Mr. Woollcott did not own the picture, but had rented it from Inventor John Van Nostrand Dorr-rent ($100 for four months) to go to the Greenwich House Music School. He added...
Retiring in good order the French jury pondered. What was this Gorgulov? They had heard the testimony of a German inventor, a man who makes rockets, hopes to shoot one to the moon. He had testified that, several years ago, Dr. Gorgulov volunteered to be shot to the moon, declaring at the time, "I detest this earth...
Died. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, 65, physicist and inventor; of heart disease; in Hamilton, Bermuda. He pioneered the development of radio telephony, was credited with inventing the radio-compass, electrically-driven battleships, numerous submarine safety devices...
...Inventor Macneil was not the only one playing last week with infra-red rays. At Schenectady, General Electric Co. installed in its main office an infra-red drinking fountain. When a drinker lowers his head over the fountain he intercepts the rays and a stream of water is turned on. Drinkers were at first too awed to drink...