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Upon straightening up, Judy found herself look .ing at a quizzical young nJ.an. "Oho!" he said. WIDE WOKW Ur. Vannevar Bush marshaled our scientific talent against (~terman and Jap nith the National Defense Rescal'ch Boal'd. He is a spare-time genius himself.
G'1s PASQUAR£'LLA ACMK Capt. George N. Robillard, co-author of' this article. makes friends with The late Simon Lake, who invented the modern submarine, advocated this . · ihe Gm·gon. one of lhe Navy's guided missiles. at the Naval Academy. lYflC of 7il00-ton. c•argo-rarrying. dccp-,..uhmerging undersea vessel in 1939. ,'\~"<' fuf"' .·'"" ~~~-1·~~~o Are We Stifling the Inventors?
By C..:-1PT. GE(JRGE N. JlOBJLL.ARD, lJSN, Patent Counsel.for the Nm~v; Ass't. Chieff!f'Naval Research for Patents. with BEVERLY S1UITH. ffashington Editor tf The Saturday Evening Post
A submarine? An aton1 bomb'? Radar? Crackpot notions, we once sneered. We still brush off-and rarely reward-the lonely genius puttering in a cellar workshop. Now, says the Navis patent shark. we n1ust give inventors a fair chance-if we want to survive.
MERICA must invent or die. It is as simple If, on the other hand, we call' widen our technical vitamin deficiency which covertly weakens an ap as that. We and our allies are engaged in a margin in weapons, meanwhile maintaining ade parently well-nourished man. These flaws concern struggle, the end of which no man can fore quate armed forces t.o handle the finished product, our system of stimulating, evaluating, testing and Hiee, against the communist powers domi- the prospects for peace will brighten. The Soviet rewarding inventions primarily useful for military nated by the Soviet Union. To counterhalance their leaders are not likely to start a world war unless purposes. .· greater manpower we have, for the time being, tech they think they can ~- My work as patent counsel for the Navy has nical superiority in land, 1:1ea, air and atomic weap What then has America to fear'? Aren't we re given me an intimate view of the intricate channels ons. So far, this has deterred the men in the Kremlin nowned for our inventiveness? Don't we have the through which military inventions flow-or are sup from attempting a world-wide war o.£ conquest. i;,rreatest research laboratories in the world, the posed to flow- from the mind of the inventor into If our technical superiority is ever lost or even largest number of trained scientists, engineers, eventual acceptance and use by the armed forces. seriously narrowed down, we may find ourselves in a technicians and production men'? Undoubtedly so. This study has forced me to the following reluctant conflict which will destroy civilization as we know it. Yet there are Haws at the heart of our inventive conclusions: il) the stimulus, the incentive, to make ------···---·-----·- system which, unless corrected, may prove fatal such inventions is weak, especially as it affects the i'rhe opinions expressed in this article are the private ones of i,he writer and are not to be construed as official or reflect ~rhe flaws have not attracied the attention of the independent inventor or the inventor employed by ing the views of the Navy Department or of the naval President, or the Congress, or the general public, the Government; (2) methods of evaluating and service at large.) because they are obscure, insidious flaws, like a testing such inventions are :inadequate; (3) the re- 22
~------l:DMl::UNE GltS J>M:>QTTAR&.LA .\ir Commodore Frank Whittle i~ a jct propulsion pioneer. Grate Typical of the anonymous citizens who dream up mighty nia<'hines in home work- ful Rri Lain has rewarded hin1 with l.00.000 pounds-tax fret~. :
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(Continued from l'aii;c :>6) what are you thinking of to stay out so ' compact and lipstick from the Rtern late?" Heat. "You might use these, with im "Oh, Brenda!" said Nancy. '"Hon provement," he suggested, dropping est, it was all right. Dave ;;nd I got t.hem into her hand. talking -- Brenda, he is divine! " Brenda flung them into the sea. ··He iR not divine!" said Brenda. .. I'm sorry," Rhe apologized. "J:l! get "He's an insolent, bad-mannered, you new ones. Have you a favorite self-centered--" She stopped. brand in lipstick? " "You're upset," Nancy said." Mr. - " Rasp berry," he answered. "And at I mean David-is really a very moral, this season, a sun-tan type of powder." idealistic person. 'The things he's been He began rowing. 8aying to me! I mean good advice, as Brenda tried not to Hee Mr. Bel had as mother! " lan1y's beautiful brown legs or the "It's a good approach," Brenda said. muscles in his brown arms. She had •·One of the oldest and best. Myself, never, she thought, met a more obnox l think your Mr. David Bellamy is a ious human being than Mr.- Bellamy. plain wolf. In sheep's --·" Her eyes She jumped out when the boat was flashed. "In no clothing," she amended, six feet from the beach. "Thank you," remembering the bronzed beautiful 8he said. She picked up her beach robe legs, the rippling muscles beneath the smooth brown shoulders. "How do you know so much about him?" demanded Nancy. * * * * * * * * * * Brenda flushed. "We'd better go to CO'MMENCEMENT AT bed," she said. The next morning, Brenda drove to A WOMEN'S COLLEGE the village and bought a raspberry ftavored lipstick and a compact of sun liq Kate llrat•kett tan powder. 'l'hen she drove out over the new road to the new beach. The Freshn1en Sing: Mr. Bellamy, in bathing trunks, was The old grads come, in typewriting when 8he knocked at his co,.tumc.... Must H"<' (o:<;t_• door. All di1mity and grace'~ They hug, "I'm returning your cosmetics," Model illustrated NA-11. Trim and specifications subject to change without notice. the)· scream.... said Brenda. Forget them ! Lean and harmonize "Someone left them in my boat. I don't know who." He looked at her and dream. thoughtfully. "Won't you t:1it down, \V c arc the slim and scornful, who Many G-E Freezer owners say Mrs. Heath?" refuse Brenda sat down. There were a great This travesty. Siniz on the steps, many books in the room, piled on they SAVE $120 each year! and choose chairs and tables, t:1tacked in heaps. A Peace, wisdom, beauty. \Ve are phonograph with a case of record al the extreme bums stood against a wall. (Meals are so much easier for them to prepare, too!) Oarlinizs of all the centuries, "I wanted to talk with you," said whose stream Brenda. "I was worried about ·Nancy ANY FAMTLIES that have pur Electric Freezer has the same famous I las fed these meadows for our last night. You know she is only severi M ehased General Electric Forni sealed refrigerating system as that in fef't. to u,.t.,. teen?" Freezers buy foods in large quantities G-E Refrigerators. Rut they-they wrote our "Yes, indeed," said Mr. Bellamy when there's a special sale ... or when More than 2,700,000 of these sealed anthe1ns and our airs; agreeably. certain items are in sem~on. systems have heen giving dependable They had the music then, the "Well! " said Brenda. "Don't you Many of them report that their G-E service in G-E Refrigeraf:ors 10 years or Yision springing. think that two o'clock is too late for a Freezers save them $120, each year! longer! Peace, beauty, Joy.... They nuu;t girl that age to be out?" Mr. Bellamy smiled. ••It never oc Furthermore, when you own one of See this wonderful 11-cu-ft ]food haye had their shares, these remarkable freezers, there's no Freezer at your G-E dealer's today. Rut lost them, and for1wt the curred to me that Nancy's bedtime was my responsibility," he answered. more paring, peeling, or washing of Look for his name in the classified sec high hymns ringing.... foods just before mealtime. You can tion of your telephone directory. .\h, we will make a loYelier worlrl "However --" prepare dinner in ~1i the time. than theirs, Brenda said, "Really, you are the See why, dollar for dollar, your best most ----" and bit her tongue. "My When we haYe done with sitting When you go to invest in a freezer, buy in a food freezer is General Elec parents are in Europe and I am in here and singing! be sure to get the one you !mow is de tric. General Electric Company, charge of Nancy --" pendable. Remember that the General Bridgeport 2, Connecticut. "Did you bring your shotgun, Mrs. Heath'?" THE G-E FREEZER GIVES YOU ALL THIS: * * * * * * * * * * Brenda Jumped up. Mr. Bellamy and walked to the car without looking was leaning against the wall, looking back. more like a Greek statue than any liv:. There was another note from Nancy ing man t
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Mr. Bellamy's eyes were amused. "Good Lord, it's like running a "Bet I can heat you to the raft," he gantlet.!" she muttered t.o Nancy. In 15.3 Seconds A addressed Nancy. They had been stopped by group after Brenda stood, feeling like a duenna, group of brown people on the sand. Steeplechase Racer Can as the iwo bronzed figures raced to the · "Hi, David!" called Nancy. water. She t-Ook off her beach coat and "Good morning," David. Bellamy 250 Yards ... Only surveyed her white legs distastefully. rel'lponded. He added, formally, "Mrs. Run But In Before she married Carter, she used to Heath," and collapsed on the Hand, his have the deepest tan of any girl on the face against his arm. cove. There were moth holes in the old Tom Lewis, wearing a batik robe, wool suit. Suddenly she wanter! to hide. dark sunglasses and a straw hat, ex Someone 8poke t.o her, and she claimed, ''Dear Brenda! What a joy! TWO SECONDS looked up at Grace Fairlee, fatter than Good day, Bellamy." ever. Grace arranged her impedimenta David Bellamy rolled over. •·Come and settled herself beside Brenda, her on, Nancy; let's 'walk." Bayer As pi ri n Is Ready fingers busy with knitting. Nancy" seemed even more excited ''How these children growup ! Nancy's than usual when they nnally returned. To Go To a little beauty, isn't she? Mr. Bellamy David Bellamy went into his cottage. ireenlR to find her attractive." and Nancy cried, "Brenda! Guess Work! Brenda asked, ''.Just who is he'!'' what! David just told me that he saw "Nohodv seems to know. But I saw you at a party in Washington before the senator talking with him once. Per I mean when you were a young girl! " 1 sonally, I never trust a man as good ''Really?" Brenda said. "How very; looking as that.... Oh, didn't I hear interesting. I'm thrilled." that your handsome ex has got married Nancy's face fell. "Why do you have' again'?" to be like that?" she demanded. "What ''That's right," :,;aid Brenda. She have you got against David?" blinked her eyes and the beach resolved "Oh, honey ---" said Brenda, feel slowly into focus. "Where's Nancy?" 'ing helpless. "She and that Bellamy walked up "You aren't really afraid that he's the beach," said Grace. "It's not any going to elope with me, are you'!" of my business, of course, but--" She giggled. "Brenda, he's twenty Brenda's feet scattered Hand on ::ieven years old . . . worse luck." (}race's knitting as Rhe got up. She "That's uot exactly senile," said said, "Sorry," curtly, and ran down to Brenda. Three years ago Garter Heath the water. had been twenty-nine. She frowned. Lois and Freddy were on the raft. Carter was thirty-two now. When i,;he They greeted her warmly. reached thirty, he would be forty! Ten "Do you two know this Bellamy years was quite a gulf. 'I'oo wide"a gulf, character'!" asked Brenda. :,;he realized, for the first time. Five was "I rather like the guy," said Freddy. plenty to be between husband and wife. Lois giggled. "And is he burning Nancy was still giggling. "I'm glad some people up! Poor Grace Fairlee ... you're not interested," :,1he said. "I'd and Tom .Lewis ... you know what a hate to have to compete with you, if busybody he is! He tried to pump him you were, Brenda." and got strictly nowhere. He offered On the beach the next day, :;he Mr. Bellamy a guest card to the club, looked at David Bellamy curiously. and Mr. B. said thanks, but he wasn't "Nancy says we've met before." going to put on a pair of pants all sum ''Oh, did she tell you that'!" he mer if he could help it! " asked. ''We didn't meet. I saw vou." Brenda did not smile. "He seems to ::What?" Her eye.s looked puizled. fancy himself in shorts," :,;he Haid. . . . You were wearmg a pale gray Brenda bought a new bathing i:1uit dress," said Mr. Bellamy. •·Misty and and wore it first on Sunday morning. silvery, like fog in moonlight." Everyone was on the beach. (Continuer! on Pal!C 62) MAKE THIS TEST! To see how fast it's ready to go to work, drop a Bayer Aspirin tablet in a glass of water, and time its disinte· grating speed. What happens in the glass, happens in your stomach.
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"1600" Angle Toothbrush from which above enlargement was made is shown here. Guarantee: Unless you agree. after 7 days of regular hrushing, New Ease in Reaching Hard-to-Get-at Places. Note how these that the "'1600" deans more thoroughly. more gently than any searching, slender bristles slip into tiny crevices with new ease, clean other toothbrush. E. H. Squibb & Suns has arranged with your away acid-forming food particles that coar:-ier bristles seldom reach. dealer to refund to you the purchase price. REF ID:A557816 62 THE S \TURDAY E''ENTNG POST June 9, 19;)1 (Continued from Page 60) "I'm going in t,he water!" said "I remember that dress! " Raid Nancy. "I sheerly adore swimming only the revolutionary Brenda. [t had been chiffon, with in the rain!" silver dbbons. ..So long ago," ;;he "That's a Hweet kid," said David added. Bellamv. "October, 1946," he ;;aid. "Ten The "rain was pelting now, bitting Van Heusen~~Shirt o'clock in the evening." against their bodies. "And you actually remembered "Why, it's hailing!" said Brenda. has the patented soft collar that Brenda all that long time!" cried ,. What fun!" Nancy excitedly. Nancy was i>tanding on the raft. "I remembered her," said David The wind had built up waves; the float Bellamy. was whipping, Htraining at its Brenda put her face on her arms. mooring. Was this why he had heen so angry "I Hhould have known you'd like a won't with her the day she had-well, swum storm too," l:!aid David. too far? Her cheeks grew hot, remem Brenda lifted her face to the hail. A bering. jagged line of lightning ripped through "I have always felt that I owed you a cloud; a roll of thunder echoed against a debt of gratitude, Mrs. Heath," he the sand cliffs. · Ylrinkle continued. ''Four years ago I was cal ''Let's go out too." she said. ''We low and romantic. I thought you were couldn't be wetter!" She 1 THE S:\TllRD\Y EYENING POST G3 Carter said, "Oh'!" He looked at her "But, Brenda --" intently. "You've never been so beau "Please go." Brenda repeated. tiful. Brenda.'' By dinnertime ::;he had pulled her "Thank you, Carter," she 1:.1aid. She :-;elf together. Six weeks before, when met his eyes. "I've never been so she stepped off the plane from Reno, happy," she added. she had thought that she was unhappy. A muscle twitched beside his mouth. Six weeks before, she had been a child. "So?" he said. "Lydia and I called the "Won't it be nice to see mother and marriage off becatise we both came to father?" she a1:1ked Nancy brightly. realize that it takes more than a trip "We must make the house pretty for to Heno -·--" He smiled faintlv. them." "Shall I say to consummate a divorce'!" Nancy said, "Did you quarrel with "I'm sorry. Garter," said Brenda David this morning'?" quietly. · "Of course not! " said Brenda. The muscle be.side his mouth twitched ''What a silly idea!" again. "Who is he?" he miked. She had no time to go to the beach "No one you know," she answered. t.he next day, and the day after that She did not' want to hurt Carter anv her parents returned. more than 8he had wanted to hurt "Guess what!" Brenda told them Andv Wheeler. vivaciously. "I have a job! I phoned "I've come a long way," said Carter. Charley Baxter, and he's making a "I•. wait~d t~o long." ,. place for me in his New York office. No, ::;aid Brenda. No, it isn't I'm leaving tomorrow." that. Carter." The senator said, ''Is that so?" ''You're quite sure·!" Mrs. Cutting looked disappointed. "I'm quite sure. Carter." she an She said, "Oh, dear. Your letters have swered steadily. been so gay, and somehow I hoped--" "What a pity," he murmured. He "I've had a wonderful six weeks," picked up his hat. interrupted Brenda. ''Now I have to Brenda'l:l face was gentle. "Don't he serious about life." you want to Ht.ay for lunch, Carter'?" 'I'he senator and Nancy drove her to "No, thanks," he tiaid. "I'll drop you the airport. · at the beach. That's where you were "How did you like my young friend, going, I believe?" He looked at her Dave Bellamy'?" :.11:1ked the senator. Nancy was looking intently at the :if 5700-- BUSINESS MEN'S ORfSS SOX hard. ''Is he very attractive, Brenda? (Tested Rayon) 6 prs., $3;30 landscape. ,;, 5500 ~BUSINESS MEN'S SOX "I didn't know he wa::; a friend of yours," said Brenda. l!~iml !M•rmiied co11on1 6 prs., $3.ao * * * * * * * * * * " "You didn't!" exclaimed her father. ti' 5800- llYLON "HE-MAN'S" GlFT SOX \\' lw11 a ho~· <'Ome;; horne ..arly l "Whv, I'm devoted to him. Brilliant 3 prs., $2.25 from playing hatl. it's time to Prke1 Vary l)ue lo 0. P. S. {-: l lad. 'Did he talk to you about his dwrk the nei1d1borr-;' windows. folors: Block, White, Srown, Grey, l'lovy, work'!" · Maroon. Sizes 9\'.i to 14. --Hll.L \JELH\l1f•;R. "Work?" eehoed Brenda Htupidly. <:::• •'' , : ;A! !\tltl~r Stores Everywb.~re,_ or write ··Does he work?" \ . iil~••'Ph Blo'ck & So~• Co., '( ork, Pa. "He's one of the foremost scientists * * * * * * * * * * on atomic research," i;aid the senator. I can i;ee it in your eyes. He's younger "He had a near collapse last spring, i;o and taller and better-looking than I. I got him to come up here and relax." Famous I-lost Yes?" Brenda made a strange sound, and her ''Don't. Carter," she said. father a1:1ketl politely, "Bone?" !l'lef e#it.f lhf!l'e Nancy was waiting at the parking Nancy giggled. Douglas Fairbanks lot when Carter stopped the car. They turned in at the airport gate. starring in the motion picture Brenda watched the rear license plate ''I don't believe I said good-by to tf.S htlldh fo1t1 c·omedy "Mr. Drake·s Duck." out of sight. Then she caught Nancy David," Brenda murmured to Nancy. about the waist and spun her, dizzily, ''Will you----" Her voice died. A tall His favorite pattern: over the hard cinder surface... May l figure in gray ttannels and a Panama beautiful "Moss Rose .. ! have this dance'!" Rhe asked. · bat was standing beside the plane. ds le1itf fhel'e ... Nancy. giggling. cried, "'Let me go, ''Whv, there'Fi Dave now!" said the Brenda! What's the matter with you? senator" innocently.... "Bellamy! What happened'!" · What a co.incidence!" Brenda did not answer. David Bel David Bellamy's pewter-gray eyes lamy was standing at the edge of the went to Brenda's face. water. As she looked at him he dived ''Fancy seeing you with clothes on!" into the surf. she Haid. "And a necktie too! " "Na$cy,.. :;aid Brenda, " he a big He did not smile; he was looking at girl and go talk to oomebody awhile." her tensely. Nancy looked at her sister's face. 'I'he i;enator was jovial, loquacious. "Okay," she said. Brenda kissed him good-by and hugged Here is silverplate when Brenda's head appeared from Nancv. David followed her into the lovely enough for a beneath the water and she shook her plane"and sat down beside her. star's home; low dripping hair back from her shining "Brenda! " he said. priced enough for any eyes, David Bellamy said. "You do ''Yes?" she answered politely. home. Servicei'l (with turn up in the wetfjjst places!" His face was drawn. "I've gone chest) from $34.50. She looked at him, and then dived t.hrough hell," he said. "I thought Choose from four like a porpoise. from sheer exhilara- didn't you know t.hat I thought you exquisite patterns. t.ion. "Oh, David!" she said, when she were telling me you were going back reappeared. "I'm HO happy! Carter to Heath?" was just here! He didn't get married, ''What?" cried Brenda. after all! " "Four years ago, when I hadn't David stared at her. Then he Haid, even met you, it was bad enough," he "Really. How very interesting." He said. "But after this summer--" dived, too, and came up at some dis ,. David!" :,;aid Brenda. She looked tance, ::;wimmingrapidly awayfrom her. i;uddenly as though someone had Brenda, t.reading water, watched thrown a switch and t,urned on all him incredulously. the current. Her face. her eyes, her She did not stop to find Nancy. The hair, all sparkled. "David dear!" she keys were .in the car, and 1:1he drove said. back to the house. '"Who is he'?" Car The fat man with gentle blue eyes ter had asked. Both Bhe and Carter who had the seat just behind them un COMFORTABLE, DEPENDABLE,. had taken too much for granted...• folded a newspaper to its broadest AND-ABOVE ALL-SAFE! When Nancy burst into her room, capacity, in the manner of one pulling Brenda was lying face down on the down a window shade for privacy. bed. "Plmrne go away," she said. TUE END ,~,fl..ylfli:ittT l'l'>t, fH~. l"IJLLMAN COMPANr REF ID:A557816 64 THE S.\.TURD.\Y EVENING POST .June 9, 1951 "That's correct, i:1ir. It's in the na BUCCANEER ture of an unofficial hearing. Travis is prepared to file an information against OF THE BARRENS you." (umtinued from Page 4·7) "I'm completely unnerved!" Raven hill asserted. "An information, did you tanks, you know. It was my first view say?" of that· section of the mountains, so I "It's merely a statement, subject to flitted about among the peaks. A sort of proof, that Travis has known you in tour. Then I saw this storm coming and the Yukon and Alaska, and that you rushed in like a frightened rabbit." He are an unreliable person." raised a questioning eyebrow. "Was Ravenhill did not find this disturb someone alarmed'?" ing. It was helpful, in fact. Travis had "Mr. Travis was a little concerned," exposed his own weakness-atleast his rinkle-proof ties said the Mountie gravely. "I'll note uncertainty- by not filing the informa the cause of your delay in my re tion forthwith. port.... Have you had breakfast, "What sort of chap, personally, is l:!Ir.6 ~," this Father Breban?" "No, but I was about to go on the "Father Breban's tops," said Mc prowl. You'll join me?" · Lean. "He deals equally well with na ... put the proof "I was about to ask you to join us, tives, bush pilots and miners. He talks Mr. Ravenhill. Colonel Cookingham, their language. He's a good poker Father Breban and I usually breakfast player, incidentally." together over at the Myrtle Cafe, near "Excellent!" Ravenhill applauded. my headquarters. This morning there's This, too, was encouraging. Raven a fourth- Mr. 'rravis." There was cau hill had long since observed that while in Yfillr hands tious humor in McLean's eyes. "Colo many l'.!terling citizens did not play nel Cookingham, retired, "is the new poker, few good poker players were not stipendiary magistrate here," he ex also gentlemen of discernment. plained. "He asked me to present his At the Myrtle Cafe, McLean intro compliments and invite you to sit in duced Ravenhill to the three waiting with us." there, and Havenhill gave each a brief This was obviouslv an order. Raven but all-inclusive scrutiny. hill was inwardly delighted. He couldn't Travis was confident: but watchful. have arranged a more convenient meet "It's great to have a reputation, Riv," ing to test Travis' strength. He knew he greeted. "Not many tourists rate a he must walk warily, however. This reception committee of this caliber." was Travis' ground. Havenhill gestured cheerfully. "I'm "A pleasure of course, McLean. overwhelmed. Thoughtful of you to ar Let's proceed." range it, Travis." As they quartered across the wind, The colonel he could have identified circling the Hock, Havenhill plotted in any gathering. He was typically his play. First he must defy rrravis, British in the old-school tradition: and dispose of him quic;:kly. The next stiffly erect, florid of face, his white and perhaps more formidable hurdle hair and military mustache impeccable. was the priest, Father Breban. 'The 'I'he moment Havenhill met his formi most skilled maneuvering might be re dable blue eyes he knew some rough quired there. going lay ahead. "How official is this invitation of the Ravenhill hastily reared his armor colonel's, McLean? Travis instigated against that savage glare. This was one it'!" (Continued on Pa{l;e 66) P~LM READERS ·A····N CR~STAl GAZERS Ass•t.J judge that '·Botany"' Brand Ties will not wrinkle. Go to your nearest store. Crush this tie between your fingers ... Let it go!... Quick and smooth as a wink, Botany springs back to its original shape without a sign of a wrinkle. $1.50 up. f9REC. U. $, PAT. Off. COPYIUG~T 19!'0L BOlANY 00 lilt.LS. INC., PASSAIC, N. J. SAUS OHICES .1\lr. ~ecretary, '\iU you please read the U WUT 46i'H STREET, H£W YORK U. 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H'e 1dll produce sncces,.ful are those that have had the best Jeaders more than all the rest 1f the zrorld put .together. the hest management. These facts arc on the reconl for f'vervone to sec. Such leaders arc always hard to find. They must havf' They measure Amei:ica's core of productive might. talent and devotion-with the vision to srP a goal rn days that are troubled. and unsure. it would be and the eouragc to rt'ad1 it. Yet the \merican heartening to have leadership of comparable calih<'r business •~nvironment has developed many of them. in oth<'r fields where it could mean i'\O much. Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco Hollywood, Boston, Honolulu REF ID:A557816 66 THE S.\.TUH.DAY EVENING POST .lune I), l'J;jl (Continued from l'age 6-1.) :::itorm clouds were gathering about of the things he had fied to the most the colonel, however. His florid hue distant corner of the old empire to deepened minute by minute. He was escape, but occasionally it overhauled plainly irked by Ravenhill's ease of him still. Here was a pompous hut manner, his cool assumption that this honorable old soldier, retired after a was merely a pleasant interlude dur Good Shave? lifetime of service to the Crown.Only ing which one ate, exchanged intellec his official position could force him to tual titbits, thanked his host and saun speak with outward civility to one tered on, yawning. who was, in his view, the lowest of all Havenhill played the role to the last. social outcasts: an ex-officer, dishonored When the table was cleared and their and dismissed from His Majesty's serv coffee cups refilled, he glanced at his ice. wrist watch with a touch of apology. The colonel did not offer to shake "This has been most pleasant, sir," Good Day! hands, nor did Ravenhill. Each inclined he told the colonel. "I must dash along his bead stiffly, their glances meeting now, I'm afraid." He ttirned to .Father like bitterly opposed steel; and for an Breban. "I'm flying over to the Great instant, though his guards were raised Bear immediately..:.weather and Con and his glance did not waver, Raven stable McLean permitting. I've a spot hill was gripped by a hlack, ego-shat of business with the mission there. St. tering mood. Cyr, I believe?" 'fhe black mood passed as Father ·'I'he priest nodded, his pleasant man ~~\\.\X AME Rll!1Jt Breban gripped his hand firmly. The ner becoming more formal. "May I priest's face was as bony as his hand; assist you in any way?" thin-lipped, scholarly, with a Hensitive, "You may indeed, sir. I was about high-arched nose. Havenhill had sel to suggest a private word together, if dom looked into eyes more placid and you have the time. I'd appreciate your @Hd/k intelligent. advice." ® "This is a pleasure, Mr. Ravenbill," The colonel cleared his t.hroat omi FOR MEN he said. "'I'ravis has been telling us nously. "We've a spot of business 'for some of your adventures in the Yukon. you here, Ravenhill. Has Constable If half of them are true-which I McLean informed you of the purpose frankly doubt-this iS no ordinary oc of this meeting?" casion, l:lir." "He has, 1:1ir. But Travis won't pro "I can't hope to live up to all this ceed, I'm quite sure. We'll achieve a for that Top-of-t~e-Wotld feeling fanfare," Havenhill returned. "Travis meeting of minds the moment he flatters me, I'm sure. One merely learns whv I'm here." struggles along." "Don't bet on it, Riv," Travis ad These pleasantries seemed to irk the vised. "You're not in Nome now,. you colonel. "Be seated, gentlemen," he know. This is Northwest Territory." said gruffly, :;tressing the last word a Ravenhill gave him a cool glance. ~~Ile~ shaving little. "Will you place your order, "I'm here on a benevolent mission, Ravenhill?" Travis. Your mercenary heart will be A isemiformal air persisted through touched by it. You wondered, perhaps, out the meal. No official busineSl:l was why I was a little overdue on my flight mentioned while t.hey ate. Ravenhill from Henderson !<,alls?" and the priest led the small talk on "Yes," Travis agreed. ''I wondered affer shaving such varied subjects as the late 1:1torm, about that." +Pil¥tt•· the future of mining in the Lochlel "Listen closely, then. I detoured by region, and finally to the differing a certain lake on the way over. It's ~~ racial characteristics of the natives in called Chandalar's Lake. There I ·came the ·Yukon as opposed to those indig upon a small half-breed girl-a charm-. -.; enous to the, Mackenzie. ( Continut"d on l'al!C 6H) r SHAVING CREAM Lather and Brushlcss AFTER SHAVE LOTION .50 I 00 plu• tax (large ~ize 1.7:>) SHULTON New York Toronto ""Mama says to forget that Dllmhcr puzzle and l~omc to hed-or Jct tnc do it a1rnin for you!" REF ID:A557816 THE SATURD.\Y EVENING POST 111 (Continued from Page 109) "That's fine." Mrs. Mitchell's voice . Mrs. Mitchell didn't say anything sounded absent, as if her mind had gone for a long time. At least, it seemed like off somewhere. "I'll expect you." a long time, but maybe it was only a Jessie nodded. She pulled her coat few seconds. When she spoke, there was tight around her, and then she gave a kind of coldness in her voice. "What Mrs. Mitchell a quick soft look and happened? Were you dusting it?" went fast to the door, pulling it open Jessie shook her head. "I ... picked and closing it behind her. it up to look at it. It was so pretty. There was such a loud singing-in her I didn't mean --" She tightened her. heart that it didn't seem possible Mrs. mouth at the corners the way she'd Mitchell couldn't hear it. It was the taught herself to do. first singing there bad been since Dave' Mrs. Mitchen· got up from the sofa. had left, because. if one miracle could She took the brown paper out of Jessie's happen maybe another could too. She IN BEAUTY! IN PEH.FORMANCE ! IN. ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES! hands, the paper and the broken pieces, had something to go on now, and it was ' ___ ,. , and she put them down on the table; like a promise. Vornado dared to bring new beauty, better performance and new staring at them hard. "It . can't be After the door closed, Mrs. Mitchell engineering principles into the field of air Circulation. Vornado is entirely mended," she said. · stood in the middle of her living room different from old fashioned fans ••• in design, in performance and in Jessie said, "No, ma'am." for quite a long time. Finally she reached engineering principles. · · · · . Mrs. Mitchell looked at her, and out and picked up one of the broken Jessie looked back, trying hard not to pieces of the cup. It was a wide triangu Twin air injector c.ones .•• a deep pitch!'ld propE?ller, plus a special show how frightened she was.· And lar piece, and all the lovely colors designed cowling, produce more air in ·a gentle swirling motion that then, all of a sudden, the coldness went showed on it-deep blue, warm blue, brings more cooling comfort throughout the entire. room. out of Mrs. Mitchell's voice,. and she pale clear blue, and at the bottom no Se~ .you~ local Vornado Dealer Now! Let him prove that Vornado sounded quite different. "Don't worry, blue at all. is The World's Finest Air Circulator! · Jessie," she said. "It's all right." She She remembered the cup being in her· stirred the pieces ·with . the tip of her grandmother's house, and how she had finger. "It's just something' I picked up loved it. She remembered the day it once in a secondhand shop. I thought was given to her, how old it was and it was pretty, like you did~':· how beautifully made. She remembered Jessie said, "Mrs.-Mitchell·--" In how she had put it up there on its shelf, another minute, folding her lips wasn't even before the rugs were down, when going to help any. She could feel the the apartment was new. tears behind her.eyelids. The cup was broken and could never ''Don't look like that, Jessie. It isn't be mended. She didn't try to explain to' even valuable. Anyone can have an herself the impulse that had made her accident." She gave the bro~ paper a tell Jessie it didn't matter. All she knew sudden push, shoving it away from for certain was that her grandmother both of them. Neither of them spoke :f?.ad. been' the kindest person she had for a minute, then Mrs. MitChell said ever know'n, an~ that her cup which briskly, "Can you come next. week at was so lovely mustn't be allowed to the same time?" ·· hurt anyone. · · "Yes," said Jessie. She wanted to "I'll keep just this one piece," say something more, but even' that. oije :Mrs. Mitclieµ said aloud to the epipty syllable nearly choked her. ' · room. leged ranks of the techriical fraternity, ARE WE STIFLING with 'all that this involves in the way of better housing, food, clothes and THE INVENTORS? service. And the riiilitary inventor is (Continued fronrPage 23.) the most privileged of all. Thus Stalin, the realist, in the na the 1920's, tens of thousands of the tionally vitaljnatter of stimulating new brightest Russian youngsters have been inventions, does not hesitate to use the selected for technical training, and profit motive, with trimmings. He evidently the process· is •beginning fo .knows that the profit m:otive, operat show results. . 'r . - ing through t;he American patent sys- Stalin also recognized that science, re- 'tem, made the United States indus search and engineering are not.enough. triilly great. Unfortunately, Uncle They can go only so far unless they are Sam, so far-sightedly generous toward fed and fertilized by new concepts, new commercial invention, has absent ideas, new inventions. He reasoned _;mind~dly drifted in.to a fumbling, neat that.inventors invent better 1£ they are i;ighted, penny-wise-pound-foolish pol stimulated by.the prospect of lar~e re- icy toward military invention. · · wards-prizes which glitt.er · :W. ~the , · America's founding fathe~s fully ID?. night, }{_eeping the inventor !'lWake to ·derstood the crucial importanc~ of :llf puzzle ·aver his budding new ideas. , vention, and. the _:rieed for stimulating An:d so.from time to time we read in and rewarding it. At_ least.two of them, the papers dispatches such as this one Franklin and Jefferson~ were them of a few weeks ago: selves men of mventive genius. And so, EXCLUSIVE in the very firsfArticle of the Constitu- FEATURES MOSCOW, Mar. 16 (A.P.)-Anotherlistof ti,on, Congresswas··empowered to give SHOW WHY! 249 Stalin prizes, totaling 17 million rubles, · inventors "exclusive rights . . . for for instrument riianu,facture, metallurgy and ·limited times" to their discoveries. · other achievements was announced today.. - The founders :hated monopoly, but The Hst was on top of 141 prizes, totalii:tg 11 million rubles, announced yesterday for they considered invention so important scientific ·research and invention. that they gave the inventor a tempo The lengthy new list covered fiv~ full pages rary monopoly-later set by Congress in Moscow's principal newspapers'.. at S£!Venteen years-:--to enable him to -- - · · . profit from his invention. He could ·Such prizes run as high as 200,000 either manufacture and sell the inven rubles apiece. However you value the tion himself or he could shop around ruble, that is a lot of money to a ~us- among competing manufacturers and siill\. Note.t too, that the successful in- sell or license his patent to the best ventors get a play.in the newspapers bidder. The system is not always equi CO!Jlparable- fo that· which we.. accord table and has its abuses, but it holds movie stars and World Series heroes. out glittering rewards which have enor- ! 'Qie inv~ntor aJso gets l!lqme~Ji?ig per- mously encouraged American ingenuity haps W?1:~ pi:ect(>usto.t~~ ~uss~an than and brought to our shores countless money or.f~pi~: ,his_"certificate of in- valuable ,foreign inventions to enrich vention" moves him into the privi- the general welfare. REF ID:A557816 112 TIIE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 9, 1951 I Naturally it did not occi.ir to the long enough the secrecy may be lifted. authors of the Constitution, living in The problem of rewarding inventions' the age of musketry and sail, that the on the secrecy list and at the same') survival of this country might someday time protecting milita_ry security is 11ever before ... 1 depend on military invention. They admittedly a puzzler. But there are provided no special incentives or pro ways in which it could be done. tections for the military inventor. Con The inilitary inventor has, besides' such dress sh()e s1nartness sequently he has been, from the first, his inferior bargaining power and shaky/ under certain inherent disadvantages legal position, another disadvantage as as compared with the comme?cial in- compared with the commercial inventor. 1 at dollars less than you'd expect to pay ... ventor. · He has-at least in peacetime-a'. In the first place, the inventor of a harder selling job. The manufacturer "plus the comfort and stamina purely military device has very little who is shown a new idea smells profits.' bargaining power. His only. ultimate The peacetime military officer who is of flexible Shell Ilorsehide Soles! customer is the Government. He can shown a new idea smells trouble. He take what the Government offers him knows that even the most promising or nothing. Or he can peddle his inven military invention is a long-shot gam tion to foreign nations, which many ble. It will cost a 16t of money and The reason why Town Shoe Shell Horsehide Soles Americans have been driven to do. many a headache to carry it through a:i;e still going strong, long after ordinary soles would Suppose our Government doe~ not pay the stages of research, development I him for his invention, but uses it any and manufacture. Even then it may, have worn through, is simple! Wolverine's secret tanning way. Until Civil War days, the in prove a flop in practice, thus casting a process makes shell horsehide so amazingly flexible .... ventor was not even allowed to sue the shadow on the officer's career. The Government. Thereafter he had, under temptation is to play it safe; to give so amazingly tough! Shell horsehide, nature's only certain conditions, a right to sue in the the inventor the brush-off; to say, in three-ply leather, outlasts all other sole leathers known. Court of Claims. This used to be an the classic phrase of one officer, "Your almost interminable procedure. In. re idea is very interesting, but we are not No other shoes give so much comfort, wear and cent years the court has speeded up its interested." · I style at Town Shoe budget prices. Write for name cases, but it still takes a hardy inventor An officer assigned to pass on new to venture a patent suit there because inventions has a trying job. Inventors and address of your nearest dealer. See, and feel, the of (a) the expense, (b) the battery of are often cantankerous and trouble outstanding new difference in shoes ... ' legal talent and expert testimony which some. And the pseudo, or crackpot, in-: the Government has at its disposal and ventors, who are the most persistent available in your favorite style! (c) the difficulty of digging the neces and numerous, are hard to distinguish sary information out of the Govern from the genuine article. After a dozen ment departments. phony geniuses in succession have Often the military inventor cannot twisted your arm and bent your ears, even find out whether the Government you are apt to forget that the next in is using or infring4lg his patent. Why ventor who comes in the door may can't we bureaucrals·get off otl.r pedes have real magic up his rumpled sleeve. tals and tell him? Because there is a If the invention gets past these first own law (18 USC 198) which makes it a hurdles and surmounts possible road SHOES crime for a Government employee to blocks among the higher echelons, it assist anyone in prosecuting a claim may eventually come under considera by lJ!Olrertite against the u. s. A. This law was well tion by the men in the research labs intended. It was aimed at a real evil: and proving grounds. Here it encoun in the past there were instances where ters a new psychological hazard, some Government employees used their in times called the "N.I.H. factor" -or side information to stir up claims "Not Invented Here." Since the men in against the Government in order to the labs and testing grounds are them share in the fees or proceeds. But one selves working on weapon improve curious result is this: even if we in the ment and have ideas of their own on Government know that an inventor is the fire, they are inclined to take a dim being cheated of his just patent rights, view of some outsider who thinks he is we can't legally tell him so. , smarter than they are. If the invention is so valuable that Some armored-force officers believe it is placed under military secrecy, the this N.I.H. factor kept the Army ·' inventor's position is even tougher. from making full use of the inventive Unless he is specially employed on fur talent of the late Walter Christie, an ther development, he can't find out American tank pioneer. I cannot pass anything. But he can hope. If he lives (Continued on Page 114·) I · ~ 1---1 Here's why Town Shoe comfort ancl stamina begin with the sole! Shell horsehide is actually a Vertical shell horsehide fibers Wolverine's exclusive trlpJc.. three-ply hide-the center layer wear longer-wear ls on the END tanning process tans this shell is a tough subst11nce much Jlke like in a butcher's block. Ordinary section to comtort-ghing flexi your thumbnall. leather wears out quic!J.erl bility. Town Shoes • The Only Dress Shoes with 3-Ply Shell Ilorsehide Soles "Look, Ed-isn't this where ymi stumbled with the garden seeds?" ' ' • '~ - '' ', ~. .. ' ~ " < • , • • ~ • THE SATURDAY EVENING POST --.....,~--WOLVERINE SHOE AND TANNING CORPORATION • ROCKFORD, MICHIGAN------REF ID:A557816 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 113 Kansas Medical Technician California Army Employee New Y2rk Soldier W. 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'"Can't be beat for spe<';d and " l!7arranty with each new Remington guarantees shaver for ftdl year. close shaving." ~------~======------'-~-·-~-~--~~-·-- -·-··. ------·~.:...... ~~~· ~~-- REF ID:A557816 lU THE SATURDAY EVENING POST J UllC 9, 19;)1 (Continued from Page 112) inventor was an air-force officer, Frank on this involved controversy. The ~Whittle, who was specifically assigned Army bought a number of Christie's to research and invention. Under our ideas, and it may well be that, he was present thrifty American system-Ex treated with all fairness. But if this ecutive Order 10,096-Whittle would inventor had been treated r.p.o~e sym- not have r~ceived .a penny for his in pathetically and generously in Amer- ventions, either from the Government NASSAU ica, perhaps his models would not have or from the commercial rights, because gone to Russia, where they wei'.e devel- he was "employed ... to invent or im oped into some of the most formidable prove." tanks in the world. Twenty years ago, The British, however, since their I should note on Christie's behalf, dis- close squeak in World War I, have Utik 8olwtut4 tant Russia was not thought :of as a found that it pays to reward military ~ ~ ,,~71~~ military threat to the United States. invention. So the British royal com- Another barrier to military inven- mission, set. up to do justice in these tions is "No Requirement.'" Hard- matters, cut through all legal techni headed, practical, common-sense men calities and awarded Air Commodore' ,,,~JJ,"' say, "We don't need it, couldn't use Whittle .. $403,000, tax free-an inde it.'' It takes rare imagination to grasp pendent fortune. the possibilities of a new invention. Since 1919, British royal commis Early in World War II someone de- sions have made awards totaling many vised a method for attaching a bull- millions of dollars to military inven dozer to a tank. It was rejec;ted and tors, individual or corporate. The forgotten. A tank can knock down or awards are not based on any narrow roll over obstacles. Why clutter it with view of the patent law-some of the a bulldozer? No one foresaw the hedge- most valuable idea~ are not even pat rows of Normandy. Within a week entable-but on the contribution made after the invasion our tanks were to the national security. Possibly that stopped cold by these primitive, mas- is why England, with a third of our sive,. rqot-tangled earthen walls.. An population and maybe l!. tenth of our earth-cutting tank attachmen~ had to technical personnel and facilities, was be invented all over again. Precious ahead of us in many basic military in time and lives were lost, but GI inge- ventions in World War II; and why nuity saved the day. Sgt. Curtis Culin, she. was ready in 1940 with the plane Lt. Steve Litton, Capt. James Depew .types and radar which won the Battle and others improvised a 'dozer-cutter of Britain. within a few weeks and the tankS sliced Once World War II got under way, forward in the historic St. Lo break- America woke up and performed prod through. igies of invention, research and devel- Late in World War II, Germany opment to make up for lost time. gave us a scare with her snorkel sub- . Agencies such as the Office.ofScientific marine, which was almost immune Research and Development, under Dr. from radar detection. If she had rine vessels.'' Why didn't we snap up National Inventors Council. 1 and develop Lake's invention? No re- This council was headed by Charles quirement. In those preradar days a F. (Boss) Kettering, of General Mo in a romantic "South Seas" setting sub could safely surface at night for tors, and included many of America's air and recharging. Years passed, radar other top inventors. During the war only 50 minutes from tlhe U.S. A.! came along, and Lake's ideas con- the council and its staff examined 200, • tinued to sleep in the Patent Office. 000 inventions, and found 6000 of them Yes, that's YOU this summer-enjoying the kind of vacation you've always Then Dutch inventors hit upon the worth passing along to various Army dreamed about. Lolling under a palm on one of the world's finest beaches. Dancing snorkel, the Germans stole or captured or Navy bureaus. By the war's end on a garden terrace "air-conditioned" by gentle Trade Winds. Riding a bike or it from the Dutch, and soon the At- 1000 of these were still under test and a horse, playing golf, sailing, fishing, water skiing. Living a lazy, luxurious, lantic teemed with tin fish where no 150 had been accepted, including the tin fish ought to be. land-mine detector which saved count- fun-filled life in Nassau in the Bahamas-world's smartest "winter playground" Now, of course, we have the'snorkel. less allied lives. -at summer rates :you can afford! This exotic tropic island is only 4!2 hours by We got it from the Germans. So did the The National Inventors Council still air from New l'ork-only 50 minutes from Miami! New low-cost all-expense vaca Russians, who also scooped up some of carries on under the chairmanship of tions include accommodations at a fine Nassau hotel, sightseeing and all meals. the best German U-boat technicians. Mr. Kettering, and performs a valu The Russians are building a lot of able though too-little-publicized func snorkels, and perhaps other new sub tion. Many inventors do not know types. We believe we can cope with about it. The military inventor coming them. We hope so. to Washingtonshouldgotothecouncil's In World War II, Germany yame up offices, Room 1319 Commerce Build with other "amazing devices" such as ing.Thecouncilatpresenthasnomoney the magnetic mine, the acoustic or topayiriventorsortohelptherndevelop homing torpedo and jet engines. They pilot models, but it can give them gave the Allies a bad time. Yet we had, honest advice, steer them to the right tucked away in the Patent Office, de- channels and save 'them sweat and signs by American inventors for all shoe leather. these devices. (Magnetic mine, 1917, During the war America was also L. J. Husted. Acoustic torpedo, 1926, fortunate in being able to apply its R. S. Blair. Jets, 1932 and 1934, Urqu- accumulated commercial invention hart and Goddard.) Read 'em and which we have always encouraged-to for reservations and complete details weep. Each of these inventions would, many military uses. The automotive SEE YOUR TRAVEL AGENT of course, have required extensive re- industry helped out on trucks, jeeps search and development. Somehow, and tanks; commercial aviation whether from lack of initiative, or wisely subsidized by air-mail con NASSAU 1 BAHAMAS, DEVELOPMENT BOARD 1633-34 DuPont Bldg., Miami 32, Florida money, or imagination, we did not tracts-helped on engines and bomb Please send me full information arid illustrated literature. SEP-6-9-51 develop them. ers; the radio industry helped make Other, poorer nations did. One of possible the proximity fuse. The Navy, these, fortunately, was Britain, from if a Navy man may say so, did a gen whom we get most of our jet tech- erally good technical job-partly be niques. Britain came up with jet p~anes cause we had been allowed to eneoilr CITY ______ZON~---STATc_. ______in time to counter the swarming Ger- age our inventors with some prospect man buzz-bombs. The chief British jet of eventual commercial rewards. SincP. REF ID:A557816 THE SATORDAY EVENI.NG POST 115 then we, as well as -the Army and the a telephone. The eminent scientist Sir Air Force, have been handcuffed by James Maxwell referred contemptu (J[fMORE Executive Order 10,096 and other rules ously to Bell as an amateur electrician to preserve military inventors against who had discovered nothing new the contamination of monetary reward. merely tinkered together some familiar In development and production, objects into a device which could talk MILEAGE America was tops. Britain, for exam at a distance. Unfortunately, this dis • ple, was ahead of us in the vital matter dain of the scientist for the inventor of radar. But after we teamed up with who is sometimes a mechanic or tink the British we were able to improve erer with only a haphazard scientific and mass-produce radar in a manner education-lingers on and. colors our beyond the capacity of the British, and thinking today. Actually each is essen to the great advantage of both nations. tial to the other. Kettering compares America's most resounding achieve scientists and inventors to the warp ment was the atomic bomb. That was and woof of a cloth. "And just try," he not an invention by an individual. It suggests, "sleeping in a hammock grew out of the discoveries of many which is all warp and no woof." men in many lands. Becquerel and Since Hiroshima the pre~tige of the Curie in France, Rutherford in Eng scientist has risen sky high. The inven land, ahd Einstein in Germany started tor remains out in the cold. Indeed his On a cost-per-mile basis, your Eclipse de livers penny pinching economy. Not one the ball rolling many years ago. From position is even weaker, as I say, under or two ... but many years of trouble-free 1939 on, such scientists as Bohr, of the various. restrictions, regulations mileage are built into every Eclipse. Add Denmark; Fermi, of Italy; Szilard, of and orders. He also suffers from the unmatched performance, handling ease, GWOID~iCkLook ,1hat happens ,d1en you Hungary; Chadwick, of England, and idea that invention has now zoomed so and durability which only an Eclipse gives German refugees Frisch and Meitner far off into the scientific stratosphere use Seaforth's solid after-sha \·e lotion! you ... and you'll realize it's your best buy helped encourage America to attempt that only great teams "of researchers A fast once-o\·er with GroomStick for '51 and years to come. Make a point and your face comes 1 alire. Groom by point comparison of the outstanding the bomb, and. assisted American scien can do any good. Thei;efore, it is and exclusive features. tists in working out the fundamentals. argued, the individual or independent Stiek.'s frosty astringent touch gives~ Which should remind us of what we inventor is not important any more yom· face a zing! a zip! a lift! A feel would lose if we "pull back behind the and the gan-et or cellar :iriventor !s a ing you've never had before! Cooling, Atlantic." Europe's inventive fertility joke. This is another half~truth. The soothing, antiseptic ... brisk anJ LARK 18" and scientific genius alone-apart from germinal idea still arises :in the indi hearty withSeaforth'scome-onaroma Here, for the first time, is a of n.;ather ·n Fern. Try GroomStick power mower/riced far all questions of honor, friendship, hu vidual mind. And the untutored genius lower than you' expect for manity and industrial power-make it can still sometimes hit the mark where toJay fot· a hranJ-ncw, grand-new the quality you get! • essential to have her ori our side in the the research teams fail. · after-shave sensation! struggle against Soviet power. Let me give you a few examples from ~-..-- . my own recent experience. Since these lI ROCKET 20" inventions are within the secrecy zone, • " Standard and Hi-Cur Models. I shall have to disguise the circum The leader since 1938 de * * * * * * * * * * livers effortless, finger-tip stances, but I can give enough of the controlled precision power The 11 aside. The pressure was on and the sky scope the inventor never dreamed of, ROLLOWAY 25 was the limit. The results were seen at may save hundre.ds of thgusands of This easy-handling mower p{'rform~ faul tlessl yon estates Hiroshima arid Nagasaki. American lives in case of global war. where lawn appearance is primary. Note full-swivel There were other less-spectacular ef This is one of the rare cases in which caster wheel and optional fects. Military men who had formerly the inventor can, r believe, be reason sulky. looked down their noses at the "long ably compensated. He is not employed hairs" acquired a tremendous respect by the Government; the technicalities for scientists. Military budgets now of his patent position are being handled provide generously for research proj by a good lawyer; and he himself has ects. For the fiscal year beginning this "actually reduced the invention to July first, the huge sum of $1,500,000,- practice." This last is most important, 000 is projected for military research. because if the Government has to Sulky· equipped for mowin~ This is fine, but it overlooks one spend a substantial sum of money in large areas. Speedway cuts a 32 swath ar 600 foer per minute. thing-the inventor. The most elab reducing the invention to practice, orate research in the world drifts then the Government must-according 7-zee '8~ ..• toward sterility unless it is fed and to regulations-demand a free license, Explains V.·hat to look for in a reinvigorated by new seed ideas, ger generously leaving to the inventor his power lawn mower. Shows commercial rights, if any, when, as and features you can get only in an minal concepts-in other words, by ECLIPSE. inventive genius. if secrecy, if imposed, is lifted. Get it? Invention and science are not syn Neither do many inventors, who there THE ECLIPSE LAWN MOWER CO. Dfrision of Buif.t/a.Ec!ipse Cor/1or,1tion onymous. The quality called inventive fore steer clear of military inventions, 1705 Railroad Street Prophetstown, Illinois genius is sparsely spotted about among and devote their talents to such na ASK YOUR HARDWAREMAN Eclipse Power Lawn ~fowers are manufactured in 0 the entire population and is rare eve11 tionally constructive and remunerative Canada by !l!A,X\'< ELL, LIMITED, Sr. Marys, Canada for advice on what tools to buy to among scientists. The popular idea now fields as depilatories, pens that will A COMPLETE LINE OF HAND AND POWER MODELS is that if we spend enough millions on write under water upside down, and enjoy the long-term economy of research we can solve any problem we bubble gum. quality. As your friend, he'll also want. There is some truth in this, if we On another recent occasion a veteri help you "Fight Waste" on home know just what we want. The trick in narian, without apparent scientific repair and workshop, projects. this is that many great inventions are background except among animals, things which nobody thought of want sent us some formulas foi;- making a HENRY DISSTON & SONS, INC. ing-except that queer bird, the in new propellant fuel. .Our trained chem 660 Tacony, Philadelphia 35, Pa., U.S. A. ists pointed out that the constituent In Canada, write: 2-20 Fraser Ave.; ventor. Toronto ·3, Ont. Nobody wanted Lake's snorkel. No parts, if mixed as directed, would ex body wanted John L. Bogert's brilliant plode. But the letter was so convincing ------. & I FREE! New DiSston Saw, Tool I idea, in 1917, for using carriers to es that they made a cautious try. No ex Flle l\Ianual! Special "Fight \'\"mite" I edition tell~ bo\Y to get more service I cort convoys, though we got around to plosion_ The resulting composition out or:rour tools. A::ik ;rour hardware I I DISSOLVES 6~ /·,.·.I man .for your free COPl-~ or write us. it in a desperate hurry a quarter cen gives every promise of becoming a I tury later. In 1875 electrical science valuable fuel for missiles. .._~01tMS.~ Painlessly and Quickly! ------' and research had the techniques Here the inventor is out of luck. 1 needed to transmit speech. The scien Since the Government must spend r:# >GETS·11 COR~ ~~,!~VER tists did not think of wanting this. But money to "actually reduce the inven DISSTON@ PREFERRED IN 30 COUNTRIES Alexander Graham Bell did. He made tion to practice," it takes a free license, THE SAW MOST ~_ARPENJERL_UiE. REF ID:A557816 116 Tllli SATURDAY EVENING POST leaving to the inventor his commercial During the l930's and continuing rights, which are apparently nil. He into the 1940's a new factor appeared. himself has no facilities for handling The bright young men who swarmed a research-and-development contract. to Washington thought well of Gov Possibly a way can be found for com ernment ownership and wer~ deter pen:sating him indirectly, by putting mined to wipe out "monopoly." The him on the Government payroll or by eager beavers of the Antitrust Division some roundabout arrangement with apparently reasoned as follows: inven the company which develops the new tion means patent, patent me.ans mo For finishing tricky fuel. It is strange to see Uncle Sam re nopoly, monopoly means evil; there combinations of duced to such shenanigans in dealing fore anything which protects, the in wood and metal, a with men on whom his survival may ventor is evil. They could not see that prominent golf 'club manufacturer has depend. · the patent right is a very special kind found that nothing One morning not long ago the mail of temporary monopoly, designed to equals heat-resjstant brought us in a complete set of draw benefit rather than injure the public, ' Jewel Brand Coated Abrasive Belts. ings. They disclosed a weapon of such and for this reason expressly sanc . a revolutionary nature and with such tioned by the Constitution. "Patents accurate detail and execution that our are bad, Government ownership is experts were first startled, then alarmed. good." Therefore the Government Our people had been working along should, wherever possible, grab owner \o nub caps similar lines, and it seemed that this ship; without compensation, '.of any inventor must have got hold of our patents within reach-and the inven secret information and then gone on tions easiest to reach are those made by from there. We hastily tracked him Government employees and those hav down and checked him from A to Z. ing contractual relations with the He turned out to be an obscure Gov Government. ernment employee, on a salary of less In 1943 President Roosevelt asked than $2000 a year, located in a remote Attorney General Francis Biddle to part of the United States. He had no make a .study of Government policy The production 'wise automotive in· special training in science or in ab toward inventions made by employees d ustry, too, finds When* filter turns struse weapons. He had no possible and contractors. Naturally, Mr. Biddle smooth - running brown-in Medico access to secret military information. could not make such a study himself. Jewel Brand Abra· ·• sive Belts ideal for Pipes or Cigarette Holders-throw it He just happened to have a strong and The task was passed down the line to polishing hub caps, away, with the nicotine, juices, flakes original mechanical gift. the bright young lawyers. They worked bumpers and other His weapon has great possibilities on it for years. In 1947 they finally par'ts prior to and tars it has trapped. Insert fresh plating. filter for cooler, cleaner, dryer, and we are spending a lot of money to came up with a monumental final re ~smoking. develop it. But no money can go to port of 982 closely printed pages. By THERE'S A JEWEL BRAND COATED ABRASIVE then the Attorney General was Tom to do every job, large or small, and to do that the inventor. In the first place, he is job quicker, cleaner, at lou·er cost! Ask your MEDICO V.F.Q. MEDICO MEDALIST employed by the Government, and Clark-now Mr. Justice Clark. He distributor or write on business (Very Fine Quality) Just Introduced l Pipes admittedly conceived and drew his signed the report and forwarded it to letterhead for catalog. Abrasive Pipes of fine selected of the choicest Products, Inc., 5 59 Pearl · Street, imported briar. $ designs (1) "during working hours," President Truman. With all respect to South Braintree 85, Mass. Wltl~rt1g ~li~~~s - $2 Splendid value- 1•50 using (2) Government "materials" - Mr. Clark and the President, I do not pencils and paper. Therefore the Gov believe their busy lives permitted them --~ errtment takes all "right, title and in fully to study, digest and ponder those terest" to his invention [see Executive 982 pages or to understand the harm Order 10,096, Jan. 23, 1950, Sec. 1, (a), the report's recommendations 'might (1) and (2)]. In the second place, he do to the national security. I trust the did not reduce his invention to "actual well-meaning men who wrote the re practice," which he might have done port did not understand this either. if he had had $1,000,000, private arse Most of the authors of the :report nals and proving grounds, and a few have long since left the Government. other things. But he can still draw his But their massive recommendations little salary and may somed;;iy receive linger on, carrying the authority of the a handsomely engraved certificate of nation's highest legal officer. ' They commendation from his grateful Gov were a primary influence behind Exec ernment. utive Order · 10,096, to which I have Sa,·es time and steps ••• It is true that the Government has referred, and exert a continuing pres serYes more customers .... pre,·ents losses. Dispenses· an "employee-suggestion" system pro sure against all inventors, military or three 3¢ stamps for 10¢, viding modest-very modest-rewards otherwise, who work for or have deal four 1¢ stamps for 5¢ from government coiled for bright ideas which save the Gov ings with the Government. If only the rolls. Easily loaded. Has ernment money. Thus R. L. Grau inventors were hurt, I might just say, effective slug protection. Operates under any di· mann, an engineer in the Washington "Too bad!" But it is the national de matic condition. \Yrite for Navy Yard, suggested during the war fense which is threatened. facts. an idea that saved the Government So there we are. What can we do? THE NORTHWESTERN CORPORATION $236,000,000 in the manufacture of If we had time to spare, I would sug 822 EAsr ARMSTRONG ST •• MORRIS, ILLINOIS 40-mm. shells. He was awarded the gest that Congress study and overhaul munificent sum of $5550. Dick Hoff the entire jungle of laws, rules, orders man, who works for the Corps of En and regulations which are involved. But gineers, conceived a p'ump vent for these are incredibly complex-I have Built to bake just like an Army dredges which saved $4,349,000 been able only to skim the surface here. oven, Everedy's 'Tater ~~~ Baker will do from 1 to 6 the first year. He was given $2300. But Careful revision might take years, and potatoes to tender good a new weapon does not ordinarily save Stalin's boys may not give us that long. ness in less time ..• with : ~WITHYzTHE less fuel , • . than your money-only lives-so again the mili The quickest and simplest move range oven! Best of all, it. tary inventor is out of luck. would be for Congress to establish an .-=:RUBBING won't heat up your kitchen How did America drift into this dan awards board somewhat along the ... and you can use it for warming and crisping. It's gerous and self-defeating attitude to lines of the British royal commissions made of steel with a gleam ward military invention, and what can which I have mentioned. The British ing chronic finish. Carries be done about it? have tested this idea now for thirty Good Housekeeping's Guaranty SeaL Mainly it is the result of accretion two years and it works. The reports of e Ask your housewares and indirection rather than intention. the royal commissions show that the dealer for Everedy 'Tater Our patent system was designed for members, chosen from top technical COVERS Baker. Due to the mobiJi .. zation, his supply may cur commercial rather than military inven and scientific men of the nation, 'have SCUFF MARKS! rently be limited. The best tion. Watchdogs of the Treasury, over been up against the same kind of way to find out is to ask. GIVES SHOES the decades, created barriers which sticky problems we face in America, RICHER COLOR! now protect us better against the in and have solved them. They don't \. genuity of inventors than they do tamper with the existing legal and Black, Tan, Brown, Blue, Dark Tan, against the ingenuity of crooks. And in patent system. But when the existing Mid-Tan, Oxblood, Mahogany, and Neutral the long years of our safe isolation be system provides no reward or an inade~ hind the oceans, all military expendi quate reward to an inventor, native Ask or.q G.I. abot11- tures were regarded as wasteful, if not or foreign, who has well served Great immoral. As for military invention: "A Britain, the commission cuts through million farmers with shotguns will the red tape and gives him just com l'-.KI WI p~~rsEH spring to arms overnight." pensation. (KEE-WEE) REF ID:A557816 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 117 Since I am not a legislator I would military services. Evaluation officers not venture. to say just how such an should be chosen with the utmost care American awards board should be set for their technical brains, their crea up. But I suggest that the value of the tive imagmation and that slant of mind .. board would depend on the character which will enable them to understand and brains of its.members rather than that queer bl.rd, the inventor. on any rigid system of rules. For ex If these evaluation boards come upon ample, men of the caliber of Conant, an invent.ion which seems to have bril Coolidge, Compton, Buckley, Ketter liant and useful possibilities, they ing and Waterman could be relied on should not be stopped cold when some not to squander public money uselessly. body along the line says, "No require They should be given a competent ment." They should be given the funds staff of young technicians, a free hand and authority to look a little further, and a continuing fund of perhaps to help the inventor build a pilot model $5,000,000, subject perhaps to ' con and to see that the model gets a fair gressional approval of any award over test. $250,000. I have not written this article out of The National Inventors Council has concern for inventors, but out of con become deeply concerned about our cern for the United States. The subject lag in military invention, and at a is an immensely intricate one, and in recent meeting suggested an awards trying to simplify it I have made some board somewhat similar to that out statements which are open to excep lined above. tions, qualifications or argument. But So much for stimulus and rewards. there can be no argument on the main How about better evaluation of new point-that America is not fully uti military inventions? Here I think Con lizing its immense inventive genius in gress should give the Secretary of De the struggle for survival. I have sug fense the funds and, if necessary, ad gested certain remedies, in the hope ditional authority to set up special that better minds can improve upon Peace-and oh, such quiet! No drone, no hum, no annoying whine. But a heavenly invention evaluation boards in the them. TUE END coolness tells you your dependable General Electric Fan is whirling near by. · Talk about quiet! In actual tests, nine General Electric Fans running at once made less noise than one fan of the same size made by a leading competitor. General Electric Company, Bridgeport 2, Connecticut. Any of'fan will coor you- but G~.E fans IJJVe you ·.a double hf us r I. lliey'ra hummingbird quiet! ----t:-• 2.lJiey fast and fa.st and fast! GENERAL fj ELECTRIC tl1e 1vl1ole family .qlJICK YOU BE TIIE JUDGE SLll.lE By Bltl/CE. ·IO"VES URING his lifetime, Mabel's wealthy father did his best to dis SUNTAN D. courage her romance with young Lawyer Brown, whom he regarded as unpromising. He even drew up his will with a double-barreled clause aimed at making her marry someone else. It provided that she should re ceive her inheritance immediately upon her father's death if she was married to anyone other than Brown, but if unmarried or married to Brown, she was not to inherit until after Brown's death. When her father passed away, Mabel, still unmarried, wanted both Brown and her inheritance right away. So she asked him to be her lawyer in suing to knock out the clause against their marriage. "Mabel's father was entirely within his rights in di:awing his will as he did," counsel for his estate argued. "Not so," Brown contended wholeheartedly; "It's against public Proved by millions on the policy to restrain marriage or encourage murder. That clause tends to do beaches of America .•. lets everyone both. It's like putting a price on my head, for Mabel to marry and mur .,.fn;im baby up ... stay.in the sun longer ..•. der me. The court should throw it out." get :a glorious TAN quickly and safely! Actually· · If you were the judge, would you agree with Mabel and her lawyer? blocks out tile burn rays of the sun .•• -~:;;.11v·\ lets the tan rays reach your skin. l'v1abel and her amorous attorney* * * Brown* * to feel slighted by the terms lost. The court said that while a of the will, "that fact does not general restraint against marriage justify him in distorting the pro was void, provisions to discourage visions of the will into an invita stf.[flfJ. LOTION tion to murder." .... ~· marriage with a particular person is best if you is best if you were valid. It added that while it Based upon a 1916 decision b11r11 eusily ~':~'::it':.':\'::1.~m.'l.';,·~ .. ...,.,~~~~-·· ta11 eusilu was quite· natural for Lawyer . of the Court of Appeals of New York. ~~---.... -. G~¢ and $1.00 plus tax :i9¢ and 98¢ plits tax You Be the Judge is primarily.for entertainment, not advice. As state laws vary, these decisions may not· apply everywhere nor at all times. Accepted for advertising in publicatio11s This departme:r;it is well stocked'.' Further contributions are not wanted. of the American l'tledical Association. AT VOUll UllUG OR (.'OS~IETIC {'UUNTEll .Ji.' REF ID:A557816 118 THE S,\'fUUD,\.Y E\ ENING POST June 9, 1951 Let ~em BeSt... ··~-~· 4~ . ( GIVE DAD A GEM-:-Then r -~--- . watch him rub his fingers , .. .: over his face· after he .shaves. Watch him smile as he agrees, ·"Gem's best! Smoothest, cleanest .:.<,!· sh~ve I've ever known!" HERE'S WHY DAD WILL LOVE HIS NEW IFEATHIER WEIGHT GEM: fo!gfo/. 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This tabloid revue was such haps 20 per 'cent of Todd's time is a success in the provinces that Todd, wasted in getting tickets for friends - in 1936, figured he was ready for sometimes he has to go out to a ticket Broadway. speculator and buy seats to his own His first two shows, Call Me Ziggy show-getting tickets to other pro and The Man From Cairo, were quick ducers' shows, and in soothing the flops and rocked him back on his heels, sensitiVe egos of the talents with whom but he rebounded with a jazzed-up ver he works. sion of Gilbert and Sullivan, The Hot The big headache with actors is their Mikado, starring Bill Robinson. The almost childlike sensitivity-they are show got rave notices, but Todd peti hurt by even the vaguest criticism. tioned Equity for the right to cut the Todd treats his actors with great re salaries of his dancers. Equity refused spect and warmth and such morale and a violent hassle ensued. A drama building rituals as repeating, "You reporter, asking Todd for a statement, were terrific last night. You were sen said, "Your accountant has been show sational. I'm not kidding you. Every ing Equity figures that your show is body is talking about it." losing money, while your press agent Pressure comes from all directions. continues to insist that The Hot An executive of the National Broad Mikado is the biggest hit on Broadway. casting Company may phone to say How do you reconcile this discrep that the premiere Bobby Clark show on ancy?" television was great, but it needs more "All I have to say," Todd replied, girls. "Everybody expects a Mike Todd "is that each department is function production to have girls, lots of girls," ing perfectly." the executive says. Todd lives by himself in a magnifi "I had lots of girls," Todd fires cent five-room duplex-penthouse ter back. "I had thirty girls in that show." race apartment on the nineteenth floor "We feel the next production should of a modernistic house at Park A venue emphasize the girl theme more." and 70th Street. From about 9:30 until "What do you guys want-the girls If you love me .. li-ke I love you 2:00 P.M., he operates from bis home should walk out of the television base with the telephone as the nerve screens into their living rooms?" Todd Let ~et~ean\'s keep me good as new! center. After his morning cigar and shouts. You'll find a Sergeant's Dog Care Product for nearly every need. several calls, he makes himself break There is the pressure from agents- Newest is liquid SKIP-BATH. Quick, easy way to clean your fast, consisting of a bowl of breakfast all kinds of agents. Agents such as dog without bathing! Also kills odors, fieas, ticks! Other prod food with cream and fruit, cake and Hermann Fialkoff, who telegraphs: ucts for worms, itching, ear troubles, insufficient vitamins. All coffee. He carries a tray of food up safe, fast-acting. All veterinarian-certified.. J;?,elied on for· 76 stairs to a glass-enclosed room on the WORLD FAM_OUS LITTLE SINGERS FROM years. FREE: famous, colorful Sergeant's Dog Book. · At drµg or terrace. PARIS. -10 BOY CHOIR AVAILABLE TV DEBUT pet store-or write Sergeant's, Dept. B-10, Richmond 20, Virginia. The room has a television set, coffee AND RADIO. LIMITED AMERICAN TOUR. table and a portable table with bot SUCCESS CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT .•\DYISE - tles of soda and whisky. He receives IMMEDIATE RESPONSE. a case of Scotch, gratis, every week. Any producer who has a scene in which "I need~ forty-boy choir like a hole wine or whisky or champagne is used in the head," Todd muses. as a prop can receive a case of some And agents such as small, dignified brand every week as long as the same· Dr. Edmond Pauker, who handles brand is used on stage. Playwright Irving Elman, author of The producer spoons up portions of Tevye's Daughters. Pauker wants to breakfast food with one hand and know when Todd is going to stop beat holds a phone with the other. After ing around the bush and get down to breakfast he lies down on a green couch producing Tevye's Daughters. In Sep and continues transacting business tember, Todd paid Elman $1000 for a . .,·:.z.. ·:i7'Ai1 / "from a horizontal' position. The busi- thirty-day option on the script. When ::c;.;?• •• ,,,,,,,,. ness ranges from such serious matters the option expired, Todd took a two as hiring a director for Tevye's Daugh- month renewal c;m it, paying another ters, a folk musical based on life in pre- $1500. Todd tells Pauker he is still ... <,,. 1-tG tln R1<.Mfanl . _ war Poland on which Todd has taken looking for a director. Pauker wants to -rt'- •cf' Complete, easy to install "Package" Attic fa;~t~ ~~- cools the WHOLE house! Here's the nearest thing to air condition ing-at a fraction of its cost! A Robbins & Myers "Package" Attic Fan forces hot air out, draws cool air in. Cools the whole house. Helps you relax in cool, restful slumber on the hottest nights. Changes air once a minute in the aver age house. ·-:::!!·So easy to install. No tr,;,p-door, _:~grille, suction box,orother"extras" -'!:to 6uy." Everything you need in a ~ ;1package. No special construction --:.required. Fits low attics and all .J1standard hallways. In four sizes, with certified air · deliveries from 4750 to 9700 "~'e can't afford to cat, cithcr-hnt'we do it!" 'IRE SATURDAY EYENING POST -1 .... REF ID:A557816 ~ T11E SATURDAY EVENING POST .Tune 9, 1951 know when he is going to hire a direc In one way or another, some specter tor. Todd says he has been negotiating is always threatening Todd's talent. for several weeks with Daniel Mann. One day it is the United States Immi who directed last season's hit, Come gration Service in the person of a Back, Little Sheba. Mann likes the young inspector who comes with Clif script, he thinks, and he is going to ford Guest in tow. Guest is a clever have a conference with Mann one of Australian ventriloquist who does a six these days. , minute specialty routine with his Todd calls Bill Liebling, Mann's dummy in Peep Show, and also acts in •; agent, and asks him when he can see some of the sketches. Guest has already Mann. Liebling starts playing cagey had a six-month visitor's visa and two Using-~ and implies that Mann has offers to do six-month extensions. His application several other plays. for another extension has been rejected. "Anyway, let's get together," Todd He is now appealing the rejection, cit too much insists. "Set up a date with him in my ing the fact that he is an important office. Any afternoon." , member of the show. The office is a fairly modest room The inspector cross-examines Todd, oil? with a large Empire desk on which are "Is this man essential to your show?" piled scripts and a phonograph. The Todd paces around the desk. _"I1 vermilion walls are covered with post would work a great hardship on me ii ers and advertisements of old Todd you chase this boy out of the country." hits. Todd is wearing a brown shark "Well, is he or isn't he important to skin suit, a solid brown tie and a brown the show?" _ shirt. Like a reporter in a movie, he "He's very important. He does his keeps his hat on during office hours. own turn and he works in the sketches." SWITCH TO Mann turns out to be a stocky, self "Is he one of the stars?" confident chap in a gray flannel suit " Definitely. He gets billing." and blue sweater. He starts by utter ..'~~- .. ing the standard Broadway opinion of a script, "It's good, Mike, but it needs \ PENNZORL work-a lot of work." * * * * * * * * * * ! "Well," Todd inquires bluntly, "do PRAYER Ti«f4:;&i PENNSYLVANIA 0111. you want to work on it?" + "It's hard to say. I've sort of com FOR A SICK LAD mitted myself to doing Sunday Break fast for Steven Scheuer, but I don't , 1 know when he wants to go into re Lord, let hin1 be cross ton10rrow, hearsal. Do you want to go to bat on Tevye right away?" Let hhn whine and fuss and "I'm ready to start casting tomor fun1c, row, if you want to do the show," Todd Protesting with his old-time says. "Incidentally, what's the matter vigor with the script?" Confinement to this little room! "It's too episodic," Mann replies. "It needs a strong central conflict to Today he has been sweet and tie it all together.' We don't get to patient, know the main characters well enough. Resigned to illness and its In the last act, when the m.ood becomes fetter; serious, we don't really know the char Lord, tomorrow let hint grumble, acters deeply enough to worry about So we'll know he's getting them. In other words, we don't par better! ticipate"-Mann looks owlishly through his horn-rimmed glasses as he accents the word-" in their emotions and struggles. But it's a good script; it's * * * * * * * * * * got a real folk quality." " Could you replace him? " "Would you be willing to talk to the "Not till the first of the year." author?" "Approximately how long do you "Sure, I'd be willing to talk to the expect Peep Show to run?" author." "At least a year ... I hope more." "All right, I'll set up a date for Mon "Would that be until next June?" day morning." "At least," Todd says. The Monday-morning session de "Well, would you say it would work velops into a battle of wits and nerves a hardship on you if you lose this If you pay 40c or more a quart between the author and the potential actor?" director. The author fights for his "Listen, sweetheart, in this business for motor oil, you're entitled to script. The director fights for revisions. it works a hardship if I lose one chorus Todd tries to keep both parties from girl." beating out each other's brains. (The Every week Todd loses at least one Pennzoil Quality this summer following day Mann signed to direct chorus girl, sometimes two or three. The Rose Tattoo, a play by Tennessee They get married, or they go to Holly Williams, which subsequently became wood, or they go into television, or they a hit.) Once again Todd has to begin grow old. A show girl is an old lady by Grade for grade, the better a motor hunting for a good director-and a the time she's twenty-three. The aver oil, the longer it stays in your engine: good director is almost impossible to age age of the eleven dancers in Peep By the same token, the longer it find. Once more he has to start the in Show was nineteen. That of the show terminable conversations with agents lasts, the higher its quality. girls was twenty-two. So at least once a and their clients. week Todd held an audition in the after So, when you switch to Pennzoil He also has to keep the author noon at the Winter Garden. The stage to use less oil, you can be sure that happy. The author gets restless when is bare, lit only by a pilot light and a this same tough-film Pennsylvania ever option time comes up. Perhaps he bank of back lights. In the pit sits a oil also gives your engine the finest will tell his agent to take the script to pianist. In the huge vacant theater lubrication possible. Pennzoil resists another producer who has promised there are only Stage Manager Hall, carbon, sludge and corrosion to keep PENNZOIL MOTOR OIL him action. Press Agent Gendel, Todd and a big your engine clean and smooth-run AND LUBRICANTS AT Todd also has to worry about Joseph man with puffy eyes named Wally ning for all kinds of driving. SETTER DEALERS, Buloff, with whom he has an under Wanger, who specializes in training Switch now. Get your full money's COAST TO COAST standing to the effect that Buloff is go show girls and dancers. The girls are ,worth at the Pennzoil sign. Sound Member Pennsylvania ing to play Tevye. Buloff is getting waiting around in the wings. The Grade Crude Oil Assn •• nervous too. If Buloff gets too nervous your Z for genuine Pennzoil. Permit:No.2 atmosphere is gloomy and the air is and goes into another play, Todd will chill. not only be without a director but "All right," Todd calls out, "let's PENNZOIL® GIVES ALL ENGINES AN EXTRA MARGIN OF SAFETY he will' also be without his leading go!" man. (Continue.I ou Page 156) ~ L ------~~~- REF ID:A557816 THE SATURD.\Y EVENING POST "Mr. Television;" Star of the Nation's Number One Tele vision Show, Texaco Star Theatre, every Tuesday Night, 8 to 9, over NBC-TV. .... \ EB ~{VERr_rlMEr -~~-=-7= ~ ~c~cc=C.=~~----7'~=~~=-:7::=-====-=- C.-.:::.---~=-= •- And here's ------seat cover show . .. 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REF ID:A557816· 156 THE SATURD.\.Y EVENING POST June 9, 1%1 (Continued from Page 154·) read lines. Work with Bobby Clark in Five girls step out. They are wearing a sketch. Let's hear who you got." bathing suits. They all look beautiful, "How much you want to spend?" with perfectly proportioned bodies. ~'Who you got?" You wonder how Todd will ever man "Maybe we could get you Mitzi age to make a selection of one. Green." "Play a little music, professor," "She was on Berle's show, Who else Todd commands. The pianist bangs you got?" out a chorus of A Pretty Girl is Like a "Vivian Blaine. We got Connee Bos Melody. As i! they were jerked by well. How about Sophie Tucker?" strings, the five girls begin a haltingly As Weiss rifHes pages, Todd says; rhythmic parade in a circle. "How about Fannie Brice-you han Wanger whispers, "That last girl on dling her?" the left was in the line at the Copa!' "She's not available for television." "She's too stiff," Todd says. Aloud, "That's great. How about Gracie he cries, "Listen, you kids bring your Fields?" dancing shoes?" "She's not available for television. They go out and return wearing Georgia Gibbs would be perfect for ballet slippers or tap shoes. . you. She's hot right now. She just "You," Todd says, "the one in the finished an engagement at the Chez center with the leaves on your bathing Paree in Chicago." suit, can you do a time-step?" "How much?" She fumbles through a tap routine. "Her television salary is $650." Then he has all the girls do a time-step, "I don't know if she's a big enough so nobody will feel slighted. name." "Smile," he says. They march about, "She's good." wearing forced mechanical smiles. "She's damn good ... but I'm afraid "She's good," Hall remarks of the girl I need a name. How about Dorothy in the white bathing suit with the black Kirsten?" leaves. "She's young. She's got lots of "She's not available for television." pep." . . "Everybody I want is not available "I like her," Todd says. "She doesn't for television. Is Tallulah Bankhead ' look hard. What's her name?" available for television?" "Pat Conway," Hall says. "Yeah," Weiss says, "but she wants "Let's hire her. You'll have to help $50,000 for one show." her with make-up, Frank. Her eyes are "For fifty grand I'd go on tele.vision set very deep." myself," Todd cries. All week long, Todd is pursuing "Mike, here's something: Gertrude talent. This pursuit brings . him into Niesen will be available the end of contact with agents like Eddie Elkort, December." the American representative of Lew & "I'm worried about October twenty Leslie Grade, an English firm that ex-· ninth. See if you can dig me up some ports continental acts to this country. body for the twenty-ninth, sweetheart." One afternoon Elkort dashes into Todd's "Let me work on it, Mike." . office in a flurry of excitement. Finally, Mike buys Frances Lang "I just got ·a cable from London!" ford, the Hollyv..aod soprano, for $2000. he crjes. "We signed ~ip Sonia Gamal! For this sum of money she sings two You can have her for .Peep Show! Only songs and ',acts ·in one sketch on the $300 a performance." October twenty-ninth program. "Who's Sonia Gamal?" Todd mur The television conferences-with murs, looking utterly bored. Star Bobby Clark, Frank Smith, Di "Who's Sonia Gamal? Are you kid rector Sammy Lambert, Scripter Vic ding, Mike? She's the girl who danced McLeod and Songwriters Sammy Stept a command performance for the King and Ted Koehler-begin on October of Egypt. She's probably the most second and continue day· after day. famous dancer in the world." · Every phase of a problem is explored "Yes?" Todd says. before rehearsals begin on October "Why don't you make her an offer?" twenty-second. Although a major tele "How can I make her an offer when vision production like the Bobby Clark you start out with a ridiculous figure show is done only once, it is produced like $300 a performance? That's $2400 almost as intensively as a Broadway .a week." musical that runs a whole year. "But think of the business she'll · Todd tells Clark that he owns a bring in." sketch about a psychiatrist and a horse "I'm doing capacity now." who comes to him for psychoanalysis "Think of the publicity you'll get if because he can't win horse races due to you bring her over." ' the fact that he doesn't want to be a But Todd is still uninterested in race horse, but wants to be ridden by Sonia. He asks, "You got any good Roy Rogers in cowboy pictures. A big novelty acts?" . argument ensues as to whether the Finally, Elkort sells him The Ivan "horse" they hire should be operated· kos, a Danish aerialist act, and Rudi by one man or two men. Todd and Horn, a German unicyclist who juggles McLeod are in favor of a two-man twelve plates while pedaling his con horse. Lambert and Clark favor a one traption around a stage. man horse. Stept and Koehler don't Meanwhile, during all this month, care. besides trying to keep Peep Show in "You can do more with a one-man good running order and getting Tevye's horse;' Clark says, as seriously as an Daughters into production, Todd was automobile executive might express an organizing the second Bobby ' Clark opinion concerning the fenders on a television show. Throughout on~ week new model, "because a one-man horse he was tangling with every agent in can be more natural. For instance, he town, trying to line up a good guest can lie down on the couch and :fold his _ star. Typical was a conference with hoofs under his head." Lew Weiss from the William Morris The conferences and the arguments Agency. Weiss arrives with a loose-leaf go on day after day-arguments over notebook containing lists of all the the music, the sketches, the arrange Morris clients. ments, the lyrics, the dance routines, Todd starts right out with, "What the costumes. you got?" Summing up the life of a Broadway Weissripostes, "What do you want?" producer, Todd recently said, "It's a "A dame," replies Todd succinctly. hard way to make an easy living." "Big name. Singer, maybe, who can THE ENO i L_,__ ~-·-~-~~~~=~~~~=~===~===~---~-==-= ...... -=~..... ~-~~===