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Extremely sage bets: Inventor Marconi; Soldier-patriot-poet-playwright d'Annunzio; Composer Toscanini (director of La, Scala, Milan, "The Foremost Opera House of Europe"); Conductor Mascagni (composer of the score for Cavalleria Rusticana); Philosopher-satirist-playwright Pirandello (author of Six Characters in Search of an Author, a play hailed with acclaim on Broadway); Statesman Mussolini and as many Fascist statesmen as are able to get in under the limit of 60 Immortales...
...days. This would account for 360 days. "The remaining 5," said Dr. de Daragic, "could be added to the year as a series of holidays, each feast to be named after a great man-the first after Jesus Christ, the second after Columbus, the third after George Stephenson (part inventor of the locomotive), the fourth after Robert Fulton (perfecter of a paddle-wheel steamboat), the fifth after Henry Ford...
...minutes of routine. Among them an invention has been perfected whereby, when an alarm clock rings, pulleys and weights are set in motion which in turn close a window, turn on a radiator, light an electric light and open drawers. Last week in Wanamaker's store, Manhattan, an inventor stood before a group of newspaper men. Beside him was a washing machine with a bright tube affixed to its side. He raised his hand. The washing machine began to churn. He raised it again, beaming like a schoolboy. The washing machine stopped. He-V. K. Zworykin- was demonstrating...
...playwright arrives at this affirmative through the process of presenting a starving inventor who suddenly sees a chance to finance his brain-child and make many millions. The whole is rather elementary, rather energetically played, and quite unimportant...
...idiom of sound. They have pleasantly conjectured how Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would taste if the listener's auditory nerves were transferred to his lips; what sort of noise a banana would make did the observer devour it with his ears. Last week Harry Grindell-Matthews, British inventor of the "death-ray" (TIME, June 2 & 9, 1924, SCIENCE), demonstrated certain devices with which he had turned theoretical flippancies of the dilettanti into mechanical realism. It is of course an impossibility to rearrange the human nervous system so that one kind of sense impression is substituted for another...