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DIED. EDWARD L. BERNAYS, 103, public relations pioneer; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bernays, the Thomas Edison of American p.r., actually promoted Thomas Edison in the course of a long career that began in earnest when Bernays set up shop in 1919. Now regarded as the virtual inventor of modern public relations, he promoted Enrico Caruso, Ivory soap, Henry Ford, World War I, hairnets, various projects for every President from Coolidge to Eisenhower, the color green (at the request of Lucky Strike cigarettes, concerned that women were resisting the green packaging because it clashed with their clothes) and Time Inc. Along...
Although it was not a fairy tale ending, it was certainly fitting, considering that Butler is, in many ways, the pioneer that made last night possible...
...interactive television becomes a reality at Harvard, the University will be a pioneer of this new technology, he added...
Although interactive programming is the committee's goal, pioneer broadcasts will consist of non-interactive programs such as the Harvard-Radcliffe Television Organization's soap opera "Ivory Tower" and Harvard course lectures...
DIED. GEORGE ROBERT STIBITZ, 90, computer pioneer; in Hanover, New Hampshire. In 1937, working in his kitchen, Stibitz cobbled together a primitive adding device out of dry-cell batteries, metal strips from a tobacco can, flashlight bulbs and telephone wires. Many consider it the earliest antecedent to the digital computer. Frustrated as a Bell Labs researcher, Stibitz eventually joined the faculty at Dartmouth...