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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inconspicuous cylinder which can be concealed in a pocket and raised to the ear at interesting moments. Inside is a complete battery-powered amplifying system capable of boosting a lovers'-lane murmur into clear-voiced dialogue. Inventor Huth primly suggests that his little tattler will be useful for, among other things, 1) listening to sermons, and 2) helping foxhunters catch the bay of distant hounds...
...Among modern astronomers, an old theory of the origin of the solar system was back in fashion. German Philosopher Immanuel Kant had speculated in 1755 that the sun and its planets were formed by condensation out of a gaseous cloud. For a while astronomers supported Kant, but later his "nebula hypothesis" lost scientific favor. More modern astronomers, notably Sir James Jeans, have conceded that the sun may have been formed that way, but not the planets. To explain the planets, Jeans suggested that another star must have grazed the sun, pulling out a thread of sun-matter that gathered into...
...Quiet Beer. As a lone wolf who sometimes puts in 20 hours a day on his job, Presbrey has few friends among his more relaxed colleagues. Their grudging admiration is mixed with wonder at the chances he takes. In 1934, prowling in St. Paul, he stepped right into a gun fight between policemen and two robbers who were holding up a milk company. A policeman's bullet went through the shoulder padding of Presbrey's coat, wounded a robber...
...Among his colleagues, Father Berard's erudition (he has written 17 scientific works on the Indians) earned him the title "Scholar to the Navajo." but his Indian flock affectionately called him "Yazzie" (Shortie). For decades he traveled the barren reservation by buckboard and horseback, preaching and studying and helping St. Michael's build up a network of schools, clinics and churches to care for some 11,500 baptized Catholics...
Point Four & Plan. The combine was first organized 2½ years ago at the suggestion of the U.S. Government to conduct a survey of Japan. Named as president was Clifford S. Strike, 46, president of Manhattan's F. H. McGraw & Co., which built, among other World War II projects, the $36 million Bermuda air base. Last week in a green-carpeted office on Manhattan's East 42nd Street, O.C.I. President Strike and Board Chairman