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Unlike many obscure inventors, Marvin Camras, who developed the Wire Recorder, benefits directly from its production. Stocky, shy, 27-year-old Researcher Camras now gets a 25% royalty on each set. Current production is three handmade sets a day, turned out by Camras and six associates of Chicago's Armour Research Foundation, but General Electric production is scheduled to begin in about three months...
...crew were killed in the crash. The other six, wounded, made their way to New Britain's coast. Their chief worry was capture. Sometimes they were so close to Jap troops, said 2nd Lieut. Marvin Hughes of Baird, Tex., "we could have whistled at them." Once they hid on one side of a narrow stream and watched Japs eating breakfast on the other side. Two of the six were finally captured. Another died...
...Marvin Collins, private first class, life had been misery ever since he left Chicago 14 months ago. "The women won't go out with me," he sadly told friends in New Delhi. He lived on mashed potatoes & gravy. Reason: Pfc. Collins had lost his store teeth...
Then it seemed that Marvin Collins' luck was on the mend. Officers sent him to a U.S. base hospital somewhere in India and the dentists furnished him a set of teeth. Collins beamed as he boarded the train for New Delhi. But after he tested his teeth on canned salmon he got sick, leaned out the train window, lost salmon and teeth, too. Last week the Army newspaper, Roundup, was crusading for "Teeth for Collins." They thought this time it might be worked through British dentists, on reverse Lend-Lease...
...final decision on what Harvard men should do with their books, which were issued last week, will be made today, according to Marvin Ryan, member of the office's Boston branch...