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That's a fine article on the Russian scientists [June 2]-particularly to me, since it refers to my father, A. N. Lodygin [producer of the "Russian sun"-Russia's first electric light]. Although he never completed his citizenship, he was devoted to the U.S. His incandescent lamp foreign patents led the Westinghouse Co. to invite him to Pittsburgh in the '90s. My father always said that he had developed the lamp as an incidental part of his heavier-than-air flying machine, which occupied much of his thought. He died in Brooklyn...
Victor Sassoon's 18-to-1 shot, Hard Ridden, win the 179th running of the Derby Stakes while the Queen's horse, Miner's Lamp, trailed in fifth...
...condition the studio attributes to "marital happiness and yoga exercises." Unhappily, she is also the same mistress of sentimental overstatement. She never misses a chance to press her heart and roll her eyes, but she could not be bothered to learn the proper way to blow out a kerosene lamp.*As for Actor Ladd, after 17 years and 40 starring roles, he has at last been able to make a significant contribution to the screen...
...ahead of his competition. Says he: "What we did was spend a little more money in bad times, and we won 60% of the market where we had only 15% before." To stay competitive in its auto-supply business, Detroit's C. M. Hall Lamp Co. had to cut prices on a lamp bracket below what it considered a rock-bottom $17.76 per 1,000. Solution: it redesigned the bracket in reinforced nylon, sold...
What is India? By the judgment of the Indians themselves-from Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru down to an unemployed factory manager in Gwalior-it is an empty tomb, a looted dustbin, the shadow under the lamp; it is four parts filth and one part hypocrisy, a cow-dung country inhabited by people with a cow-dung mentality. Cries one Indian youth: "There's no depth of superstition to which Indians won't sink. We worship cows and cobras. We have eight million 'holy men,' most of them naked and all of them mad. Everything...