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Historic Decision. With scarcely a pause for breath, Harry Truman shattered the thought. He turned from his typed script and read hurriedly from a sheet on which he had written with a pen a historic paragraph...
...painter of glossy portraits (Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Benito Mussolini) and illustrations (the memorable World War I "Fight or Buy Bonds" posters); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Once, asked to do a series of paintings showing the evolution of the American girl, whom he had long glorified with pen and brush, Christy begged off: "Gosh! She's never evoluted . . . same old girl she always has been...
Finger Writer. A ballpoint pen that fits over the index finger has been invented by R. L. Fuerst, a German refugee who fled from Hitler to Spain, then to China, then to the U.S. when the Communists started moving in. He will put it on sale in the spring, has already lined up orders for nearly 90,000. Price...
Magic Trifle. Bell Laboratory has a two-stage transistor amplifier, complete with resistors and condensers, that is potted in a cylinder of plastic as big as a ¾-inch section cut from a fountain pen. When a faint voice current is fed to this trifle, it gives a signal loud enough to blast the eardrum. Scores of such amplifiers could be packed in a coffee can. One device at Bell has transistors that do the work of 44 vacuum tubes. The whole thing is housed on a panel no bigger than the page of a novel...
...among California lettuce growers as the wife of an unbelievably naive Korean War veteran (Don Taylor). To Taylor's surprise, the folks at home do not warm up readily to his bride. She is patronized, insulted, finally slandered by a jealous in-law (Marie Windsor) in a poison-pen letter accusing her of an affair with a local Nisei farmer...