Sammy Davis, Jr.

Karl Slover in “The Wizard of Oz”

DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) – Karl Slover, one of the last surviving actors who portrayed Munchkins in the 1939 classic film, "The Wizard of Oz," died of cardiopulmonary
arrest Tuesday afternoon in a suburban Atlanta hospital, according to Laurens
County Deputy Coroner Nathan Stanley.

Slover, one of the smallest of the male Munchkins in the movie (4-foot-5), was
best known for playing the lead trumpeter in the Munchkins’ band but also had
roles as a townsman and soldier in the film.

 
Miller Hutchison

Miller Reese Hutchison (1876–1944) was a electrical engineer and inventor. He
invented the first electrical hearing aid, called the Acousticon (below). His interest
in a hearing aid stemmed from a childhood friend who was deaf from scarlet fever.

Hutchison attended attended classes at the Medical College of Alabama to study 
the anatomy of the ear. In 1905 he turned over the rights for the Acousticon to 
Kelley Monroe Turner (shown below). Turner improved hearing aids, such as 
adding a volume control.  

The portable Acousticon hearing aid powered by batteries in 1906

Kelly Monroe Turner in 1912

 
Stanley greeting Livingstone…"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" 

  
Henry Stanley                   

David Livingstone         

Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a Welsh journalist and explorer famous for his
exploration of Africa. He is also famous for being sent by the New York Herald
newspaper to find David Livingstone, a Scottish medical missionary with the
London Missionary Society and explorer who had completely lost contact with
the outside world for six years and was ill with malaria. Stanley found Dr.
Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania. Livingstone
remained ill for most of the last four years of his life. He died May 1, 1873
at the age of 60.