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Rumba Fancier. Among the magazine's famed editors have been Waldemar Kaempffert (now science editor of the New York Times); and the late, brilliant Edward E. Free. But Scientific American has been dominated by the family which has owned and published it through almost its entire career, the Manhattan Munns, one of Ward McAllister's original "400." Present editor and publisher (third in the line) is Orson Desaix Munn, 61, a patent lawyer, crack bird hunter and fisherman, rumba fancier, familiar figure in Manhattan café society. He passes on everything that goes into the magazine...
Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Master of Leverett House, and book review editor of "The New England Quarterly" has been appointed, with Bennet Cerf, editor for Random House and "The Saturday Review of Literature," and Waldemar Kaempffert, science editor of the New York Times, to the Book Committee of "The Key Reporter," membership quarterly of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary society...
...Waldemar Kaempffert's science colyum in the New York Times it was revealed that the late Sir Henry Segrave, racer of motorboats and automobiles, solved the problem of buoyancy in his boats by lining the hull with thousands of ping-pong balls...
...Outline of Art* he has set out rather definitely to follow Bacon's mindsteps. The latest addition to this type of library is A Popular History of American Invention published in two volumes by Charles Scribner's Sons and sold for $10. The editor is Waldemar Kaempffert, formerly of the Scientific American, now of Popular Science Monthly. A whole series of scientific writers contribute a whole series of articles, readable and comprehensive, profusely illustrated under five major headings comprising groups of special histories: 1) TRANSPORTATION : railroads, waterpower, electric cars, automobiles airplanes; 2) COMMUNICATION: printing, typewriting, telegraphy, telephony, radio...
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