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...Patent Office in Washington announced that patent No. 2,204,004 had been granted to Elihu Root 3rd, 36-year-old grandson of the onetime Secretary of War and Secretary of State, and a graduate of Hamilton College who is now a free-lance engineer in Springfield, Vt. The patent: an optical device for taking minute and precise measurements for use in the machine-tool industry...
Actually, most Britons seemed agreed that the Red Dean is no longer a laughing matter. The question is what to do about him. Even though she is titular head of the established church, Queen Elizabeth is unlikely to break a centuries-old tradition by revoking the lifetime patent given by her grandfather, George V. "There can be little doubt," mourned the London Times, "that, if there were any lawful means of dispensing with his services, his ecclesiastical superiors would long since have adopted...
Under ordinary circumstances, an officer who wants to engage in political activities has to resign, retire or be discharged. But the rules were written before the five-star generals and admirals were created in World War II. They have a peculiar status, like a patent of nobility. Ordinary retirement rules do not apply. They are assumed to be on active duty for life, and they can draw full pay for life...
Lasker was still groping for a new approach to advertising when, in 1904, a stranger helped him find it. A boy came in from the saloon near Lord & Thomas bearing a note from John Kennedy, an ex-Canadian mounted policeman who was writing breezy ads for patent medicines: "I can tell you what advertising is." Lasker sent for Kennedy; liked his definition: that good advertising simply offered a "reason why" the customer should buy. Lasker hired Kennedy and they translated the theory into copy with such slogans as Palmolive's "Keep that Schoolgirl...
Triple Threat. Comedian Danny Kaye and his manager took out a patent on a new blowout paper toy for children. Instead of having merely one rolled-up tongue with a feather on the end, the Kaye version has three-one that shoots out to the right, one to the left, and one straight up in the air, to tickle the nose...