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Played like roulette, with the mouse replacing the white ball, the game, called Cardette, is the brainchild of 28-year-old Gambling Dealer Everett MacDonald. Cardette, says Inventor MacDonald, requires no bait, can't be fixed, pays better odds than roulette...
...cripple Porgy, this time with music for himself and the 75 other blacks living in Catfish Row, returned last week to Manhattan. He was still the brainchild of Playwright DuBose Heyward, still the protege of Manhattan's Theatre Guild which took him under its wing eight years ago. For one week Porgy and Bess, with a 700-page score by Composer George Gershwin (TIME, Sept. 30), played in Boston, won high praise. On opening night in Manhattan half the Somebodies in town crowded in to hear this latest attempt at a U. S. folk opera...
...best known living historians of Peter Rabbit, Harrison Cady did not invent the character, is not Peter Rabbit's only illustrator. Peter Rabbit was the brainchild of Beatrix Potter, a gentle English lady skilled in telling stories that children really like, and illustrating them in sly effective watercolors. First published in 1904, Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit books have sold by the hundreds of thousands, are cherished by adults who spurn her imitators. Besides the Tale of Peter Rabbit, other Potter best sellers include: Tale of Benjamin Bunny, Tailor of Gloucester, Tale of Two Bad Mice, Tale...
...certain hour of certain days Radiopathy customers took certain pills while staring into the photographed eyes of one of the Institute's professors, who at that very instant was "concentrating on you." The Postmaster General also scotched that enterprise. Japanese became best customers of another Neal brainchild, the Cartilage Co., which sold a halter by which runts hung themselves from ceilings to stretch their vertebrae. About 1904, Mr. Neal went to Europe, where he made caffeine from tea sweepings. Back in the U. S., he claimed to be the only man making aspirin in this country before...
Coach Jack Carr is using a green ping-pong board as a miniature soccer field to demonstrate new plays to the Varsity squad this year. It is a much photographed brainchild of Carr's and is provided with specially-made wooden frames to protect the corners from injury...