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...Intrigue, dealing with the Agadir incident of 1911. Producer Towne will stress his stories rather than his stars, hopes for big names but will insist on actors to suit his roles. His idol at the moment is George Bernard Shaw, who, after refusing for years to let the cinema tinker with his plays, got Pygmalion made straight into a smash hit. Says Gene Towne: "It took an old guy with a beard to make bums...
...dream before Glenn's birth that she was up in a flying machine, a circumstance which probably gives Glenn Martin title to the earliest aeronautical propensity in the airplane business. She gave him a sheet to sail his wagon before the Kansas wind. She saw him begin to tinker with machinery and at night read him newspaper articles about the flight experiments of Chanute and Lilienthal. She was just as pleased when he made himself an expert mechanic by working in a garage as she was when he studied business at Kansas Wesleyan...
...good British passport in his pocket, a magistrate sent Mr. Pinker, handcuffed to a Negro prisoner, to be held in the Tombs without bail for trial. When a grand jury handed up an indictment and Mr. Dewey's office revealed that a series of complaints had swelled Agent Tinker's alleged pilferings to $100,000, other agents wondered whether their profession was to have a Whitney Case...
Powel Sr. wanted Powel Jr. to follow him into law. But young Crosley liked to tinker with automobiles. By 1906 he was a private chauffeur (although his father was a prosperous attorney). By 1909, at 23, he was president of an automobile manufacturing company. It was his idea to make a low-priced, six-cylinder car, but bad financing wrecked the venture and for eleven years he drifted from job to job, automobiles to advertising to gadgets...
...until "scientific" tests had been made. A member of the committee, Miss Alice Barrows, the U. S. Office of Education's specialist in school building problems, refused to vote for the report, declared the matter should be studied by disinterested scientists. University of Minnesota's Miles A. Tinker pooh-poohed the tests cited in the report, said his own studies had shown no gain in speed of reading in light stronger than three foot-candles. Meanwhile, Raymond V. Long, Virginia's director of school building, charged that "the study reported by the society has been financed...