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National Scholarship Awards of $700 each were won by the following girls: lower New England region, Phyllis Bodel, of Lakeville, Conn, and the Emma Willard School; Middle Atlantic States, Marilya Cornelius, of Altoona, Pa. and the Altoona High School; Upper South, Elizabeth Eilers, of Washington, D. C. and Central High School; Middle-West, Patricia Jasper, of Council Bluffs, Iowa and the Abraham Lincoln High School; and Lower South, Barbara Shaw, of Atlanta, Ga. and the North Fulton High School...
...Willard Mullin, sports cartoonist for the New York World-Telegram and Sun, has illustrated the book. "Out of the Red" combines the talents of two men who are tops in their fields...
Assistant Physics Professor Willard Geer of the University of Southern California liked to tell his class to go out and invent something. Once, while lecturing them on the "scanning disk" method of color television (TIME, Nov. 28), he suggested that better reception could be had with an electronic tube- if someone would invent one. When he mentioned it to his wife that night, she said: "You'd better get busy and invent it yourself...
...rigged up other makeshifts. In six months, Geer had run through his savings, but he had also developed a new electronic tube. For the next four years he fought over patents with Radio Corp. of America, in 1948 finally won all 40 claims in his patent application. Last week Willard Geer, now 47 and still a $4,500-a-year assistant professor at U.S.C., sold his tube* for a "substantial" sum to Hollywood's Technicolor...
...during spring training, which is a notably optimistic time of year anyhow. After one of the largest rebuilding jobs in major-league history (TIME, Dec. 26), Billy finally had an outfield. He had given up his keystone combination of Alvin Dark and Eddie Stanky to get Sid Gordon and Willard Marshall from the New York Giants along with Infielder Buddy Kerr and Pitcher Sam Webb. On top of that, his bosses, Boston building contractors, had shoveled out $100,000 and three players to get fleet-footed Rookie Sam Jethroe from Brooklyn's canny Branch Rickey...