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Each & every child in the U. S. and Canada whose twelfth birthday comes this year is eligible to march into a corner drugstore or a Kodak Shoppe with its parent on or after May I and demand to be given, free, one special Model C "HawkEye" box camera and film-roll to match, made by George ("Kodak") Eastman or Rochester, N. Y. (TIME, April 14). The Hawk-Eye is sold to all persons over or under twelve this year for $1.25. If all the twelve-year-olds are honest and do not go from store to store to get more...
...Kodak's* golden jubilee Mr. Eastman obtained the same sort of ungrudged well-deserved publicity as his friend Thomas Alva Edison had received for the golden jubilee of the electric light bulb (TIME, May 27). Hearst Colyumist Arthur Brisbane wrote: "Ruskin, who had worked to reproduce . . . [the] architecture in Venice . . . hailed the discovery of photography as a most important gift to education." Grace Goodhue Coolidge announced: "Instead of coming together to play games and eat ice cream and cake . . . each guest [at the Eastman birthday party] is to receive a golden anniversary camera and film by means of which...
Almost as famed as Rochester, N. Y., hometown of George ("Kodak") Eastman is Rochester, Minn. (named for Rochester, N. Y.), seat of the Mayo Clinic. Last week Rochester's first citizen, Dr. William James Mayo, chugged into Memphis, Tenn., on his gasoline cruiser North Star on his way north from a Florida fishing trip. A newsgatherer got him talking about something he and his younger brother, Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, seldom discuss: money. Dr. Mayo assured his interviewer of a fact which Rochester, Minn., has long known. The Mayo money?and there are several millions of it?will...
George Eastman, camera man, announced that he would give more than 500,000 gold-tinted box cameras away next month to any U. S. or Canadian child whose twelfth birthday comes in 1930. The occasion: to celebrate "Fiftieth Anniversary of Kodak...
Kaye Don, British speedster who will try to break Segrave's world record, drove his 4,000 h. p. Sunbeam-Coatelen motored Silver Bullet 200 m. p. h. in a practice run at Daytona Beach. Samuel Edward Sheppard, 47, Assistant Director of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories, a scientist so precise that he frequently lies prone to sight for his golf putts, last week received in Manhattan the gold medal which the late Chairman William Henry Nichols of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. created. In accepting, Dr. Sheppard, who often utters startling truths, declared that in many fields pure science...