Word: strickman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just eight months after proudly announcing its support of the Strickman cigarette filter-for which it received a major financial interest in return-Columbia University last week did an embarrassed about-face. Acting at the request of the inventor, New Jersey Chemist Robert L. Strickman, who felt that the university was dragging its feet on the product, Columbia backed out of the deal. The university said that it had made "a well-intentioned mistake in entering a highly controversial and competitive commercial field." It had indeed, suggested Washington's Democratic Senator Warren Magnuson. The outspoken tobacco industry foe charged...
...TIME is happy to print President Finch's rebuttal, but the conclusion was formed by Robert Strickman, and clearly attributed...
...Your story "Smoking & Safety" [Sept. 1] misleads in regard to Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. On Aug. 25 we tested some filters made by the Strickman group in order to be informed of the present state of development. Such testing does not indicate, as you aver, that Brown & Williamson is now "satisfied with the Strickman device." That is a conclusion that you formed without any verification from...
Though he will not discuss his formula, Strickman said from his hospital room that cigarettes with his filter will "draw" perfectly well. "I took a form of the same filter material to Brown & Williamson," he said, "but I never entered their laboratories. They were' not interested. Since then I have made some adjustments to make it draw more easily...
...present, he said, at least six cigarette manufacturers-including Brown & Williamson-are satisfied with the Strickman device in its present state of development. Even B. & W. last week was testing the filter, and Inventor Strickman himself said that one com pany has already delivered a contract...