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Newshawks discovered that for months, when he got tired of looking at fruit flies, the geneticist had retired to a garage, put on a greasy jumper and worked on his car far into the night, hammering, welding, machining parts on a lathe. Now & then, the foreman reported, Dr. Bridges hit...
Ralph Teetor frequently walks through the plant, never bumping a machine or a workman or missing a door. So thoroughly aware is he of what goes on around him that he frequently says. "I see that that machine has been replaced." or. "I see that this lathe needs attention." Most...
In 24 newspaper offices throughout the land excited groups of newsmen stood around an imposing array of switchboards, generators, motors, and lathe-like machines. Lights flashed on the switchboards -green, red, white. Needles swung on dials. Whistles shrilled from loudspeakers, then a voice:
Switches clicked, the lathe-like machines began to hum. Seventeen minutes later in each of the 24 offices an operator opened the machine, withdrew a large cylinder, rushed it to a dark room. Another few minutes and the finished photograph of the wrecked airplane was on editors' desks around...
At Warsaw, Ind., on the platform of a convention hall, sat a trio of solemn judges, holding a little bunch of blue, red and yellow ribbons. They scrutinized a procession which passed through the hall, whispered among themselves. Old friends were the three; each year theirs is the task of...