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...with my slicing and hooking," he says, "and I spent a lot of time looking for the damn ball in the rough. It was infuriating." But Pedrick, a mechanical engineer by training, a tinkerer by inclination-and a better inventor than golfer-has now filed plans with the British Patent Office for a series of devices that could offer the suffering duffer new hope on the links...
...brilliant primitive painter who decorated the walls of countless New England homes with wild landscape murals. But he was far from a traditional example of neglected genius. In many ways, Porter was the most active collaborator in his own oblivion. He never settled anywhere for long; he failed to patent most of his inventions. Above all, he left most of his hundreds of portraits and murals unsigned...
Patrons at Manhattan's Shoe Biz at Bendel are as fond of the red patent chunky-toed, chunky-heeled style as they are of the white version; it has a platform as high as its heel and is wrapped over and over with what appear to be Ace bandages. Not all monsters are sandals, of course. Some are sturdy leather brogues with heels extending beyond the back of the shoe; others have tongues that take their licks at the ankles, leaving even the slimmest tarsus looking like a giant redwood...
...miserable ten years. Five of his horses have been killed by lightning, the old Corvette hardly runs any more. Karl has been stopped by police 400 times, and duped by two different firms that promised to build a prototype of his car but tried to steal his patent instead. Karl is out $30,000. He looks older than his 54 years and has grown careless about his appearance. He trembles. But a man who will spend three years in his dining room playing with pieces of glass does not give up easily. "I really think this...
...White House was "shaken" to learn that her compatriots had burned the place down during the War of 1812. "I'd heard of 1812, but I thought it was an overture by Tchaikovsky," said Mrs. Edward Armitage, wife of Britain's Controller General of the Patent Office. Turning to Pat Nixon, she added, "I'm sorry they did it. It was nothing between you and me." Soothed Pat: "I know you wouldn...