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Show Chicago Man Planning for the Future? Buy U.S. Savi Earns Country's Gadget King Title Ja - THE FAMILY TO A BATCH OF From behind a desk in a Chicago office that combines the chaos and wesmspes i quaintness of a toy shop, hock shop and antique shop, Robert Kahn i reigns as the countrys gadget king. I Surrounded by a display of gadgI Cook together Into greased I ets and novelties that overrun his e bowl, pour . . . over hot water . t I offices filing cabinets, book shelves I Yt cup butter 5 cups Kellogg's I Kahn Vi lb. marshmallows and window sills, Rico Krisples. I I Add marshmallow (about 2 Vi Box.) lelps chart the course of the naI When syrupy, add n mixture, get 24 pieces dollar gadget tions I ... in and beat from 9 x 13 pan. I industry. Even kids can make em! Yi teaspoon vanilla. I I Kahn, whose gadget interest stems long-tima had from his youth, has flair for designing and marketing items that usher in the nations fads and crazes. It was Kahn who flooded the country a few years back with the tiny Swiss weather houses that found their way into millions oi The 8. 8. United States is LINER TO BE CONVERTED homes. shown under construction at the Newport News Shipbuilding and the been announced that It has Dock liner, The popularity of the weather company yards. Dry which was to be the most luxurious passenger vessel ever built forecasting house had long languishin this country, is to be converted into a troop transport eapable ed In this country. During the war of carrying 12,000 soldiers. when the government restricted weather reports, Kahn figured peo7 ple were still Interested in information on the elements. On a hunch he purchased some rejected rifle butts from the government and contracted with a manufacturer to fashion them into weather houses. GERHARD By INEZ said shed strained a ligament in Kahns clairvoyance paid off more than a million dollars. n of ler hand, romping with her dog. PAAR, JACK Smoother Performance Double Inkless Straight Pen Sunday night The $64 Before the weather house ven An automobile Take It or company has Question' formerly life and Greater Gas Savings Leave It has been the replacement signed singers Tony Martin, Dick ture, Kahn Invented a straight pen for so many stars, Including Jack Haymes, Ginny Simms, Dorothy that proved a bonanza to students Benny, that he threatened to change Shay, Dick Powell, John Charles It wrote with water and eliminated to the complete line of regular, transport, his name to oleomargarine the per- Thomas and Lauritz Melchoir, not all mess and smudge that went and model spark plugs union aviation, marineAuto-Litfect substitute. This is his first or radio or television shows but with ink pens. Engineered by view shows the 10,000 ohm Resistor which winter show, and he's doing fine. or radio spot commercials! Surrounded by several dozen oth permits wider initial gap settings and makes these He ribs human frailties and himself. er gadgets on a window sill in his advantages possible. Double life under equal condibut never the worried contestant; tions as compared with norfow-gaspark plugs Pinkerton' Man, current RKO office, where he is owner of a ChiPaths "This Is America short, cago advertising agency, Kahn dis swim1" . a how sleuth trained shows highly p?t, v plays 'one of the most amazing oi actually operates. The private detec present day toys, a talking doll. The tive is shown mingling with crowds, doll, with an internal phonograph going through the stages of carry mechanism, repeats a childs pray ing out his assignment often pro- er as articulately as an actress. ceeding in a manner so different Talking dolls have been on the from the methods employed by mov market for years, but they have nol ie and radio private eyes that it reached the level of articulatene is startling. attained by Kahns. Now, to add to this hodgepodge Patsy Campbell, star of CBSs of wizardry and wonderland knows The Second Mrs. Burton, and the gadget industry, Kahn has as her radio actor husband, A1 Reilly, have yet to get a taste of Bermuda concocted the ultimate in gadgets. as he calls it, is sunshine. Theyve returned from The Telzall . vacation a there and it truly a Rube Goldberg device. Worn on the wrist like a watch, it comrained every day. JACK PAAR bines nine utilitarian items that fori years individually have been stock in fact. Jack Is always nervous Bob Hope thought he was gopieces in scouting and camping himself before the show goes on ing to be the first paraphernalia. the air and is frequently quoted as show business personality to entertain troops In the Korea The Telzall in addition to tellsaying, "Im so nervous I keep coffee awake Now making a area, but A1 Jolson beat him to ing time by a sun dial, predicting comeback in radio at the ripe old it. Many others win fonow, weather and providing users with Curt age of 30 he has already sue possibly including Massey magnifying glass and compass, ceeded in making The $64 Ques and his CBS show. contains a boll point pen, tape meastion one of radios brightest spots. ure, signaling device, and charts oi Mel Ferrer, who was supposed to the Morse code and the contella- Errol Flynn, on the other hand, paint Joan Fontaines portrait in tions. This fantastic compact enis madly enthusiastic about the Bom to Be Bad, proved a good semble is little larger than an ordWest Indies; says Jamaica is his art sudent. Before the film was inary wristwatch. second home. He owns four ranches, done he had finished caneight Sells His Ideas and also an island; raises cattle, vasses, one so good that-shbought Kahn doesnt manufacture novel- cocoanuts, bananas, pimientos and it from him to hang at home. On the Mountain nutmeg. ties himself. He sees the possibiliRocky set he admitted that he was just as ties in an item and then endeavors ODDS AND ENDS . . . Dorothy own his enthusiasm to sell it to a manufacturer. He surprised by for the land as were the friends Hart, one of Dennis Morgans two tussled with more than a half dozen leading ladies in Raton Pass, who'd thought him adventure-mad- . companies before he could convince carries an old Korean coin as a one of them of Telzalls utility. Joan Crawford, returning lucky piece; it a was given to her Most of Kahns gadgets are. sold years ago by missionary . . . from a stay in a hospital, Bill mail order. In 1948, Kahn hanHopalong Cassidy Boyd by came home to find all four of an old found of himself the dled three million dollars worth oi picture her children sick.. Cathy and one was other that day, prophetic auto seat covers by direct mail. The Cynthia, the twins, were run shows it him, aged ten, riding on previous year he mailed 150,000 nlng temperatures; her oldest a . . Gregory Pecks . horse white friendship rings at $2.95 apiece. daughter had a sore throat, and handbrother, Donald, And last years mail orders on had oak. poison Christopher Fasterristff some and has blond, ambiacting dolls exceeded the number oi in and nursed Joan pitched dissolving Easier to use" says "Faster tions, but will wait till he finishes similar dolls sold by Sears, Roe-them. A fine prelude to pitchMrs. R. A. Madsen, says Mrs. W. O.Scr2:n& d,AIeWHaha high school next year. buck and Company. ing in a Warners' in the role of county Farmington, Utah, first Pueblo, Colorado,a a woman senator in Goodbye, winner Affable Bob Kahn, who Is to gadg-- l the standing at winner ribbon ner. place Willard Waterman was really ets what My Fancy! C005 Fair. State 1949 No Ford was to the AU scared when he did his first show automobile,Henry can't beat it for speed. maintains there is alwaiting, no special bothFriends ..who .wanted to shake as Gildersleeve recently, espeit pcut risicl need for something useful. U ersome directions to folyou do is combine and its hands with Ruth Roman when they cially when a girl in the studio au- ways rrcsul a push button novelty saves time low. Ive never used any water, stir well congratulated her on her perform dience said disappointingly Oh, and effort and yeast I liked better. gets a few laughs, ance in Three Secrets couldn1 Its not the same one! 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