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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf Hitler, in his speech at Danzig last week (see p. 20), uttered a dark hint that Germany possesses a secret and unique weapon. This threat stirred Professor Archibald M. Low, A.C.G.I., M.I.A.E., F.C.S., F.I.P.I., F.R.A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., D.Sc., Ph.D., F. Inst. Arb. to retaliate. Professor Low is a British television pioneer and jack-of-all-science who worked for the British Government in the last war, invented a wireless control gear for torpedoes. After some scientific snickers at death rays and bacteriological bombs, Professor Low growled: "Whether Hitler has any horrors or not to produce at the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Low on Horror | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Long Island, arb colonies are few and far between. At crowded, middle-class Long Beach, the work of the late, great Glenn O. Coleman, most famed Long Beach native, was exhibited by the Long Beach Dads' Club, which hoped to raise enough money by public subscription to buy a Coleman for the public library. At the other end of the Island at socialite East Hampton, in the handsome Guild Hall and the landscaped gardens around it, young, prolific Wheeler Williams exhibited 85 pieces of sculpture, smooth executions of conventional subjects that ranged from a pipe-playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Summer Shows | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...Hertz, who conducted the first of the "Symphonies under the Stars" in 1922, led off the first week. Following him will be Karl Krueger, conductor of Seattle's Symphony Orchestra. Later to Hollywood will go the great Italians Bernardino Molinari and Pietro Cimini; and Enrique Fernández Arbós of Madrid. Soloists include: Margaret Matzenauer, Elsa Alsen, Richard Crooks, Kathleen Parlow, Percy Grainger, Alfred Wallenstein. Ballet-arrangers: Mme Albertina Rasch and famed Japanese dance-master Michio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Summer Concerts | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

Bach's Suite No. 3 in D by Désiré Defauw and the Orchestra of the Brussels Royal Conservatory (Columbia, $6)-A vigorous, forthright reading of Bach's most popular orchestral suite. A sombre Corelli saraband is played by Enrique Fernandez Arbós and the Madrid Symphony as filler for the last record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Records | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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