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...always say," he declares, "that there are more churches in Harlem than cabarets. The Negro is not merely a singing and dancing wizard, but a loyal American in spite of his social position. I want to tell America how the Negro feels about...
Died. Nikola Tesla, 86, "electrical wizard," inventor of the Tesla transformer, the Tesla induction motor, discoverer of the rotary magnetic field principle; in Manhattan. Croat-born, he came to the U.S. in 1884, worked briefly for Thomas Alva Edison, became a great electrical inventor on his own. In his old age he holed up in hotel rooms, became an urban hermit, taped his doors and windows and tried to keep the room at a 90° temperature, had his vegetables boiled two hours, wiggled his toes several hundred times every night to "tone up." He also announced that...
...wizened little Scotchman named "Scotty" with the degree of R.E.W. (rope escape wizard), amused a large crowd of Deacons last night in the Kirkland Junior Common Room by escaping from the bonds he begged to be trussed...
...troop-and tank-carrying planes. This was good news for Louisiana's Andrew Higgins-the man who took ribbing aplenty when his much-touted Liberty Ship contract was canceled last summer. It also meant that Higgins had stolen a march on his friend and archrival, Henry Kaiser, the Wizard of the West Coast. (Kaiser has contracts for only three prototype planes...
Economic Tsar Byrnes is no great master of economics (though he is a longtime friend and follower of Wizard Bernie Baruch), but he is not supposed to be. He will leave administrative details to his new committee: the heads of all the wartime and peacetime agencies which now deal with the various aspects of inflation, including OPA's Leon Henderson, the War Labor Board's William H. Davis and Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard. Byrnes's job is to listen to the arguments among his committee members (who have seldom seen eye to eye in the past...