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President Roosevelt last fortnight signed a bill awarding $592,719 to Inventor Lester Pence Barlow. A nice piece of money. But Mr. Barlow, at home in Baltimore, was still far from happy. He had won his 21-year fight to make the Government pay for an aerial bomb which he invented in 1914, and which the Army used during World War I. But he calculated that taxes would eat up 80% of his reward, lawyers' fees and other expenses would take most of the rest. Said Mr. Barlow: "This case is a perfect explanation of why inventors go nuts...
Mostly Miscellaneous Things: Even ardent musician unionisis had to suppress grins when Local 77, Philadelphia, demanded and held tryouts for a musician to fire a cannon during the Tschalkovsky "Overture 1812" . . . New York scribes are listing Lester Young's solos (Count Basie) as being by "Jack Hoak" . . . Orchids to Red Nichols for the clever stunt of mailing all the record critics in the country five pennies separately with an announcement of more to come and then a nickel painted red with publicity about Red Nichoin and the Five Pennies...
Ewell will have a difficult time winning the broad jump championship for Princeton's Anson Perina, Cornell's Lester Murdock, Pitt's Frank Ohl, and Michigan State's Walter Arrington all are capable of 24 feet or better...
What everyone had come to see was the explosion of this steaming bag a new explosive called "glmite," invented by Lester Pence Barlow. Mr. Barlow had already impressed a joint Congressional military and naval affairs committee by blowing up a telephone pole. Congressmen wanted to see what Mr. Barlow's glmite would do to the 84 goats. Newsmen, on the advice of army officers, practiced opening their mouths and stuffing their fingers in their ears, glanced anxiously from the suspended bomb to a nearby ambulance. Everything was ready. Two truckloads of irreverent army goatherds amused themselves by bleating...
...other record to fall from the books was in the high jump, where Indian Don Blout and Ithacan Lester Murock cleared 6 feet 3 1/2 inches in a tie for first place. The old mark was set in 1936 of 6 feet 2 1/2 inches by Robert Pitken of Columbia and equalled by Murdock as a Sophomore two years...