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...late Nikola Tesla was a spectacular eccentric scientist and showman. Sure that his name will outlive Thomas Edison's, Tesla's admirers hold that he and Michael Faraday were the greatest electrical discoverers of modern times. Last week one admirer, who according to the inventor himself understood him "better than any man alive," published the first Tesla biography-Prodigal Genius (Ives Washburn; $3.75). The author: John J. O'Neill, science editor of the New York Herald Tribune...
Beatrice Lillie, known to Britain's peerage as Lady Peel (see FOREIGN NEWS), on her way to the U.S. from Britain for her first appearance in five years-starring in Showman Billy Rose's forthcoming Seven Lively Arts (TIME, July 24-was bounced off a plane in Ireland, had to await a priority while the show, having chalked up a record $300,000 advance sale, went into rehearsal without...
...Time. This week the P.G.A. players move on to Chicago. There, at his Tam O'Shanter town & country club, Showman George S. May will stage his fourth annual golf festival. His first three made him the Billy Rose of golf impresarios-last year's total attendance was a record 67,000. This year May hopes for 90,000. He is offering the biggest prizes yet, $42,587.50 in war bonds, with general admission at $.83 (plus tax) a head...
William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, Chicago's late three-time showman-mayor, who cached some $1,500,000 in safe-deposit boxes which were undiscovered until his death (TIME, March 27), was claimed as a relative by scores of Thompsons. One Wisconsin claimant asked for $20,000 because Big Bill had promised to remember him for once saving his life by pressing a dime under Big Bill's nose to stop its bleeding...
...meowing cat which ends it, are a deft, valid blend of showmanship, humor and yard-wide Americanism. The wounded men in Since You Went Away really look wounded, for almost the first time in a U.S. fiction war film. There are scores of such evidences of a smart showman's eye, mind and heart. Added up, they give the picture taste, shrewdness, superiority, life. Now & then the idealization runs too far ahead of the normal reality. But by & large the blend of flesh and fantasy is pretty close to Hiltonesque life in the U.S. Home...