Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royalty-free use, the commission this week released the original patent on nuclear reactors which it got from Nobel Prizewinner Enrico Fermi and six other Italian scientists. Though atomic research has progressed rapidly, the patent is still basic for reactors...
Only a generation ago, anemia was both a common and a fashionable complaint. It was good for endless speculative chatter, because doctors understood little about it, and nearly every patient had his (or more often her) favorite patent nostrum. Last week, Salt Lake City's Dr. Maxwell Myer Wintrobe told a Manhattan audience of doctors how drastically the anemia story has changed in a mere three decades...
With his wife's help, Mills sets out to look for the missing corpse, discovers that the body was robbed and buried by a passing gypsy. His daughter's new suitor, a U.S. patent lawyer (Sam Wanamaker), gets idealistically involved in the case and, in clearing the gypsy of murder, relentlessly involves his future father-in-law in the crime. What is good about the film is the full-bodied characterization of the killer as a man willing to compromise -but only up to a certain point-to save his own life. Its chief surprise is an ending...
...with many irons in the fire, Terrell owns a patent on his tent (it has only two poles), has a scheme for adding smell to the sight & sound of movies and TV, and an interest in three other music circuses around the country. His plans for Orpheus are ambitious: he hopes to open it on Broadway this winter. One of the hazards: another version of the same operetta planned for this season by Showman Billy Rose (see THEATER), who was never a fire-eater but can be counted on to produce a pretty hot Hades...
...patent, No. 2,206,634, was lost in the legal confusion that surrounds everything atomic. It did not pay off until last week, when the Atomic Energy Commission, after much hesitation, awarded $300,000 to the Italians and their associates. Besides Fermi, two of them, Drs. Franco Rasetti and Emilio Segre, are now atomic scientists in the U.S. The fourth, Dr. Edoardo Amaldi, is still in Rome. The fifth, Dr. Bruno Pontecorvo, will have trouble collecting his. He vanished in Finland in 1950 and is now presumably working for the Russians...