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Interesting as a business fight, the Strotz-Ringling battle is significant of a change that has come over the show industry in Chicago. Sidney Strotz, the tail, lean, hard-chinned younger son of a North Shore socialite family, has been successful in a variety of businesses (wrapping-machinery, Korn King products, auto supplies) since leaving Cornell in 1919. Like most of his friends he lives in fashionable Lake Forest. One of his friends who did not live in Lake Forest was the late Patrick T. ("Paddy") Harmon, proprietor of "Dreamland" (dance pavilion) and promoter of bicycle races who was killed...
...Hale--Korn, Wexler v. Magruder--Collins, Farley...
...feat was made possible by the experiments of Dr. Arthur Korn, professor of electro-physics in the Berlin High School of Technology, who has been working on the idea since 1900. Dr. Korn's process is based on the fact that a half-tone newspaper or magazine picture, if examined through a strong magnifying glass, is seen to be made up of hundreds of tiny dots, varying in size and shade, the dark dots being large and the light ones small. Photographs under the new system are translated at the sending end into groups of letters, each letter representing...
Other attempts at wireless photography have been made in the last two or three years, but none with the success of Dr. Korn's experiment. The picture just produced, though lacking in distinctness, gives great hopes for the future. The basic method is sound, and with the perfecting of the process which will come with time, the possibilities of the invention are almost without limit...
...Palmer '22, W. E. Reily '22, Roger Sumner '22, Stuart Huckins Occ., George Stevens '23, J. D. Winans '24, Frank O. Holmes 3Dv., Raymond Fuller E.T.S., C. W. Pipkin 2G., J. L. Brown 3L., H. Epstein 3L., J. L. McChord 2L., Jeff Davis 2L., John W. Korn...