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Word: napkined (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alimony to four ex-wives, is one of the outstanding answers to the prayers of chorines in Manhattan, Hollywood and points between. He is also a prolific inventor, an untutored natural master of electrical mechanics who has been known to devise a complete electrical control system on a luncheon napkin. Like Henry J. Kaiser in a different field he belongs to that completely individual type of miracle man that flourishes chiefly in the U. S. For years he has had the radio and aircraft industries in a mixed dither of admiration, envy and dislike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Brash Young Man | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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