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Fox got into VitaVision through his longtime friend, Writer-Producer Gene Towne, who had bought the rights to some 200 patents that went into VitaVision. VitaVision requires special cameras, paper and developing process. The key is a thin, transparent plastic screen, in effect a lens, which is laminated to the...
So far, VitaVision has turned out only about a dozen cameras. Before long, Fox and Towne hope to make enough to have them snapping portraits in department stores and portrait studios all over the U.S. Soon, the company hopes to make a smaller camera to sell to amateurs, along with...
A Biscuit? To decrease international tension caused by misunderstanding, representatives of some 500 U.S. organizations (the exact figure was undetermined) met in Philadelphia last week. They had been asked to advise the U.S. delegates to UNESCO. The meeting was the strangest infusion of brotherhood since William Penn came there to...
Serge Koussevitzky, 72, the Boston Symphony's prestigious maestro for the past 22 years, went to court in Manhattan and gave a new publishing firm (Allen, Towne & Heath, Inc.) a blazing sendoff on its very first book. Title: Koussevitzky. Author: ex-Boston Music Critic Moses Smith. The maestro sued...
In the mass of companies, the results depended on whether they had been hit by strikes and material shortages. If they had not, they were likely to be way up, like Electrolux (to $2,184,329 as compared to $730,996). If they were hit, they were likely to be...