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...would like to inform you of an error in the Jan. ii issue of your fine magazine. In that issue there is a picture of two of the famous scientific Shull brothers looking at a kymograph. You have erred in the captioning of this. The one using the apparatus is a Government botanist (J. M. Shull) as you said, but the other, Dr. G. H. Shull, is not a geneticist from the U. of Michigan but is instead a plant geneticist of Princeton University...
...Under orders from Reichspropaganda-minister P. J. Goebbels, every German store and factory had ceased activity, every radio loudspeaker in the Fatherland was supposed to be on the nationwide Reichstag hookup. Messengers and street sweepers were under orders to drop everything and rush into the nearest cinema where sound apparatus was attuned to Der Führer, and in iron tones the whole German people were told: "There can be no excuse for not having listened to every word spoken by our beloved Leader, Adolf Hitler...
...study at Princeton, Stanford, the University of Montana, returned in 1916 to his native land where he worked on the development of sodium vapor lamps in the Philips laboratories and devised a way of sealing chrome steel to glass in X-ray apparatus. Last autumn he again bobbed up at Stanford as a research assistant. "Europe," he said, "iss no blace to bring up fife children." Stanford is financing his present work, expects some share in the profits...
...that the Red Army, which is supposed to have been thoroughly indoctrinated with Communism during all these years, has in fact now become disgusted with the way Communism is working in Russia, and has in recent months obtained under J. Stalin mastery of the frame-up and third-degree apparatus of Justice in Russia. According to Mr. Levine, the New Generation represented by the Red Army now "regards the Old Guard Leninists as the greatest obstacles in its path...
...bigger than a page of newsprint), covers 1/40 of the visible sky at each exposure, shows about 400,000 stars on one plate. With this giant apparatus Dr. Cook intends to photograph the entire sky. After six months of precise adjustments, the camera got into action just before New Year's Day. Since then thick weather has ruined every night but a few for sky-map-ping, but last week three plates had been successfully exposed and developed. Thirty-seven more plates will be needed to mop up the Northern sky. Then...