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Science teachers found that current articles on the atom, radioactive rays, etc., were ideal for introducing students to scientific principles. Furthermore, on such topics as radioactive rays, in which recent developments have outstripped the textbooks, "the only major source of [this new] information is current materials...
...while the California scientists played like small boys with their dangerous new toy. The neutron beam smashed almost any atom. It cooked up any number of radioactive isotopes. But there was more than fun & games afoot. The monstrous cyclotron was on the trail of something important...
Colonel Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick is a farsighted-often a gloomily farsighted-man. Last month he set aside the Chicago Tribune Tower's lowest sub-basement as an atom-bomb shelter (TIME, Oct. 6). Last week he announced that he would stock the (future) dugout with a little (future) mild refreshment. He assured the 3,000 Tower employees that the refuge would be "equipped [for us] to live there 24 hours. . . ." Among its provisions: "an adequate supply of canned pineapple . . . the best remedy for radium burns is pineapple juice...
First man to hit the finish line for Harvard in the Varsity contest was John Cogan, in third positions. He was followed by Captain Huns, Rosenfeld, fourth and Bill "Atom" Baker, ninth, Hank Wilbur and John Anderson completed the Varsity scoring...
...vastly more important: Planck's "universal constant" (6.624 x 10 -27 erg-seconds), now considered one of the three fundamental figures in the universe.* Planck's constant enabled Einstein to conceive the "photon" (particle of radiation). It also made possible Niels Bohr's model of the atom. It turned up in spectroscopy, in the study of X rays, in electronics. Upon it is based the whole science of quantum (wave) mechanics...