Possible Clues:

• Is the editor willing to be an inventor?
• Thomas Alva . . . . . . , great American inventor
• How the editor's willing to be inventive
• It's north of Highland Park, N.J.
• Thomas Alva ......, great American inventor
• Journalist is working with inventor
• ___ Electric Co.
• Menlo Park man
• Inventor's absence of pretentiousness when climbing
• Cofounder of GE