PLEASE EXCUSE THE AUDIO: I REPRODUCED THIS WITH A MICROPHONE TO MY COMPUTER FROM THE ORIGINAL TAPED INTERVIEW. I HAVE OVER 2 HOURS OF INTERIVEWS WITH PAUL. THIS IS A FIRST I'M RELEASING AND HOPEFULLY WILL REMASTER ONCE I HAVE THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT. -- THANKS -- JOHN --some true facts about paul winchell: --Winchell was an amateur medical inventor who patented an artificial human heart. --Ventriloquist star from 1950s and 1960's television and films. --His puppet side-kicks, Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff, are now in the Smithsonian Institution. --Skilled voice-over artist for many Disney and Hanna-Barbera films. --Winchell worked for years developing his ideas on artificial hearts and was mentioned in the news stories about the Utah man who got the first artificial heart and later when the Jarvik heart came to the fore. He hold several patents in artificial organ development. --Named television's most versatile performer by Look magazine in 1952 and 1953. --Attended Columbia University, then studied and practiced acupuncture and hypnosis. -Held patents on over 30 devices, a flameless cigarette lighter, an invisible garter belt, a method of breeding Tilapia fish so that poorer countries could feed their citizens, and an indicator to show when frozen food had gone bad after a power outage. As for his major achievement, the artificial heart, which he built in 1963was donated to the University of Utah for research. --The first implant on a human happened in 1982.Paul ...
Orignal From: An Interview With Hollywood Actor Paul Winchell
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