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...protean Pablo Picasso before he is safely dead. Until then he will spend his life as he has spent it to date: in sporadically escaping from himself by declaring war on his latest period and once more attempting to foretell the shape of things to come. Like the Proteus of classic fable, he has the further gift of eluding those who clutch at him, changing his shape and slipping out of their grasp. At 58, he is still the revolutionary...
...late Inventor Charles Proteus Steinmetz with whom Electrical Engineer Doherty worker for three years in General Electric Co.'s research laboratories, fostered no political beliefs...
Meantime, a bartender was stabbed, 75 other of the city's half-million celebrants injured themselves in fights, falls, wrecks. And while householders and servants were racketing around the downtown streets during the pageants of Proteus, Rex & Comus, a platoon of sneak thieves took the opportunity to raid the residential district...
...engineering, only five in teaching. At 18, he was tapping a telegraph key for Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Six years later, a graduate of the University of Illinois, he joined the engineering staff of General Electric, where he worked for a time with the late, great Inventor Charles Proteus Steinmetz. No recluse, he served a term as Mayor of Scotia, N. Y., near G. E.'s Schenectady plant...
...years Samuel Finley Breese Morse never attended a National Inventors' Congress. Neither did Alexander Graham Bell, nor Thomas Alva Edison, nor Charles Proteus Steinmetz. Nevertheless hundreds of lesser inventors, any one of whom might become a Morse, a Bell or an Edison overnight, were assembled in Hollywood last week for the National Inventors' Congress. These were not the bigwigs of industrial and academic laboratories. They were the humble rank & file of U. S. idea men, indefatigable purveyors of small ingenuities, perpetual optimists who swell the total of U. S. patents to some 50,000 a year. For example...