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High above downtown Rio de Janeiro, in the hilly Santa Teresa district, a chauffeured Oldsmobile last week pulled up to a modern apartment building. As a pudgy, genial-looking man stepped out, English-speaking Brazilian Detective Sadoc Reis called out: "Hi, Lowell." "Fine," replied Lowell McAfee Birrell, 52, wanted in...
"Please come along with me," said Detective Reis, showing his credentials. "You're wanted for questioning." Answered Birrell smoothly: "Certainly, sir. It's a pleasure to be in a democratic country with such nice people."
Wouldn't it have been appropriate and also interesting to tell the readers of TIME that a German, Philipp Reis (1834-1874), invented the telephone in 1861?
¶ The claims of Meucci, Gray, Reis, Dolbear and numerous others were all fought out in the courts. The Bell patents were upheld in 1888 by the U.S. Supreme Court.-ED.
Huxley's 25-year-old satire of a scientific civilization was dramatized last week, in the first of a two-part series, on the opening show of the CBS Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m.), a revival of radio's famed experimental Columbia Workshop. From 1936 to 1947...