Word: inventors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stark evidence appeared last week further to puzzle investigators seeking to untangle the mystery of Long Island Sound, the Collings Case. From the drifting, lightless cabin cruiser Penguin one night had disappeared a young inventor, Benjamin P. Collings, and his younger, pretty wife, Mrs. Lillian Chelius Collings, leaving their 5-year-old daughter Barbara to be picked up by passing fishermen. Next morning Mrs. Collings was found half-hysterical in the anchored launch of Mayor Howard C. Smith of Cove Neck, L. I. To police she told a strange story of how two mysterious men in a canoe, one about...
...boat, found it was the Bo Peep, onetime tender of the yacht Resolute, now the launch of Mayor Howard C. Smith of Cove Neck. The woman in it was young, dark, comely. She said she was Mrs. Lillian Chelius Collings, 28, wife of Benjamin P. Collings, an inventor of small appliances who four years before, at 34, had stopped work to live on a modest income. With his wife and daughter Barbara he spent the summers aboard the cruiser Penguin-the boat the fishermen had found adrift the night before. Excited, half hysterical, Mrs. Collings told conflicting stories, finally gave...
...small Barbara's shoes. The Collingses led a secluded life, had no enemies, were happy. Mr. Collings' income had dwindled to about $1,000 a year. He had no insurance. The Collingses were avid readers of detective stories. Long Island detectives remained baffled by their case; Inventor Collings remained missing...
...Association. They listened to the Schola Cantorum sing old motets under Conductor Hugh Ross, made a tour of Manhattan's finest church-organs: at St. Patrick's, St. Bartholomew's, Riverside Church, Temple Emanuel, Trinity Church and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Inventor-Pianist Hans Barth played for them on his quarter-tone piano...
Upper registers of the "Claviphone," it is claimed, are an improvement over those of an ordinary piano, long a problem to engineers. Says Inventor Nernst: "My friend Einstein, who, you know, is very musical, says they [high piano notes] sound like porcelain getting smashed...