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...Midget Recorder. A portable wire recorder, weighing slightly more than 2 lbs. and no bigger than a shaving kit, was put on the market by West Germany's Monske & Co. for businessmen or reporters who want to dictate while on the move. The Minifon is equipped with a small microphone, two dry-cell batteries, enough wire spools for 2½ hours of recording. Price...
Died. William ("Bronco Bill") Schindler, 43, auto racer and first (1940) president of the American Racing Drivers' Club; in a racing crash; in Allentown, Pa. Despite losing a leg in a 1936 speedway accident, Schindler continued racing, appeared at Indianapolis three times, twice (1948-49) won the national midget racing championship...
Business Brain. In Brooklyn, the Electronic Computer Corp. offered a midget-sized (6 ft. by 10 ft.) electronic brain, the Elecom 100. The compact machine will answer such practical corporate problems as the overall wage bill, taxes, etc. Capable of "remembering" 102,400 combinations of nine decimal digits each, the brain can also be used for complicated aerodynamic problems. Elecom is run from a panel on an office desk, and the answers are recorded on an electric typewriter. Price...
...coolers and sundry other gadgets, Powel Crosley Jr.'s first love was always the automobile. Seven years ago, the 6 ft. 4 in. Cincinnati millionaire decided to satisfy his passion. For $19 million he sold all his other interests to Aviation Corp. (now Avco), concentrated on making midget Crosley autos. His goal was to produce 150,000 cars a year, eventually bring the price down to $500. But Crosley fell far short of the mark...
...mass, however, the star is no midget. Astronomer Luyten figures that it is 40% heavier than the sun. A cubic inch of its densely packed matter would weigh something like 1,000-tons, and if a 150-lb. man could stand on its surface, his body would weigh 300,000 tons...