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Twain and Pigeon. Tesla's experiments, few of them ever finished, were financed by such backers as J. Pierpont Morgan, John Jacob Astor, John Hays Hammond, Thomas Fortune Ryan, Samuel Insull. During the last 20 years of his life, Tesla holed up in a Manhattan hotel room, dreaming of bigger & bigger projects. Before his death last year at 86, he had announced that he was on the verge of: 1) inventing a death ray, 2) communicating with other planets...
They escaped, but from the three in custody, Allied authorities collected names, addresses, information. Police dropped in on a Rome cafe just as the mob was driving away with an Italian civilian who had been acting as their fence. They had marked him down as a stool pigeon and were taking him for a ride. Police captured them...
Next before the bar was Boris Theodos-sienko, a White Russian refugee. He had been a petty stool pigeon for the Gestapo, had circulated through the boites, reported whatever anti-German talk his eager ear could catch. For him, seven years at hard labor, confiscation of property...
Wrong-Way Pigeon. Part of their professional grief was the helpless frustration of losing hundreds of good shots. In the rush of Dday, many exposures were ruined, many negatives lost. One photographer who landed with paratroopers lost one movie and two still cameras while retreating under fire, barely managed to save another still camera to record the first few days' action. Severely wounded, another was forced to destroy all his exposed films when capture became inevitable...
First Lieut. Martin Lederhandler, a former Associated Press photographer, had the most vexing experience. On D-day he entrusted a carrier pigeon with some 35-mm. negatives, then watched the bemused bird head off for the enemy lines. Weeks later he saw reproductions of his pictures on the front page of a German army newspaper found in Cherbourg. Under them was the legend: "Photos by 1st Lieut. Martin Lederhandler, U.S. Army Signal Corps...