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...About the time the women's cases reached public attention, Dr. Sabin A. von Sochocky, Austrian inventor of radium paint, died in New Jersey, his teeth and fingers all gone (TIME...
...monarch in his way, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison can also indulge his propensity for asking trick questions, rewarding him who gives the wisest answers. Nine years ago he compiled for his prospective employes a list of puzzlers which provided table talk in U. S. homes for weeks afterward. Last year he gathered 49 handpicked boys just graduated from their high schools, offered a prize of expenses and tuition to any college for four years to the one who did best in an examination he submitted to them (TIME, Aug. 12, 1929). Last week 49 more boys journeyed to West Orange...
...business took up too much of his time. So Paul Bunyan was a very happy man the day he found John Rogers Inkslinger sitting bemused on a cliff with one foot damming up the Twin Rivers, and added him to his camp crew as chief bookkeeper, surveyor, inventor, doctor, and general efficiency expert. And Johnny Inkslinger was very glad to meet Paul Bunyan, too, despite that hero's carelessness in mistaking the great scribe's supply of fresh-sharpened pencils for a pine forest and having them all chopped down. One of the very first reforms that Johnny...
Sued. Harrison H. Boyce, 49, Manhattan inventor (motometer); by John J. Athana, his wife's sister's husband; for $1,000,000. Charge: that Boyce alienated the affections of Mrs. Jacquelin E. Athana. 22. his ward...
...Forest, President of the Institute of Radio Engineers and vice president of General Talking Picture Co., vacuum tube inventor, announced he would move his research laboratory to Hollywood on Jan. 1. Said he: "In Hollywood I expect to do better work and more...