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...said, preferred action and achievement to money. Mr. Fox retired to his lairs-the apartment on Manhattan's Park Avenue where he collects antique musical instruments, his Long Island Estate adjoining a golf course where he plays in the low 80's. There he turned his keen mind to the matter of patents. R. C. A. Photophone and A. T. & T.'s Electrical Research Products were making and leasing sound apparatus which involved the "double print" method of recording, the "sprocket" method of reproduction. Other systems were obsolete. But William Fox was sure those processes infringed...
...keen-eyed Reader Weigle enjoy her well-deserved laugh on TIME.-ED. Ann Arbor for Lansing...
...tempting methods of flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment of conscience, the erstwhile painter watches fate overtake the other inhabitants, eventually wins his release from the accursed country. Total effect of Amaranth is typically Robinsonian: a shadow masque seen through a glass darkly, by a keen but puzzled...
Ever since the French Line launched its superliner Normandie (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932), the French Government which chipped in a heavy subsidy has been nervous as a cat lest Britain's No. 534 be altered in construction to make her the bigger ship. In Paris suspicion was still keen last week, but in Government circles it was said that French engineers recently managed to measure No. 534 in famed John Brown's shipyard on the Clyde. Their report: No. 534 is 1,018 ft. long, or 9 ft. shorter than the Normandie which Paris papers called last week "not only...
...Keen, hard Premier General Ismet Pasha sped out from Istanbul to Bakirkoy last week with a slogan ringing in his ears: "Assure the independence of our shirts!" In a normal year Turks turn into shirts and shifts some 50,000,000 yards of cotton sheeting. This they have bought chiefly from Japan, but Dictator Mustafa Kemal is now driving ahead with a Five Year Plan to industrialize Turkey and make her self-sufficient. In this program the building of cotton mills was put first "so that the Turkish people shall no longer wear the imported cotton shirts of economic slavery...