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MacVicar put his theory to the test, using the Amherst chemistry lab's electric furnace. On the second try, he succeeded. Impressed, Geology Professor George W. Bain handed MacVicar his favorite specimen, a chunk of pre-Cambrian limestone from the great Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo, world's largest supply of uranium. After slowly heating the stone to 1,800° C. and letting it cool slowly, MacVicar painstakingly brushed away the powdered lime and uncovered the fragile, microscopic remains of a billion-year-old sponge. Dr. Bain described it as "among the oldest [fossils] yet discovered...
Hughes and Craig will meet Gerry Monsalvatge and St. John Bain of M.I.T. in the semi-finals on Soldiers Field this afternoon. The winner will meet Wesley and Smith in the finals immediately afterwards. The singles finals will be played at Amherst some time this week...
...British contingent of the Anglo-American Council is headed by big, bluff Sir Frederick Bain, deputy chairman of Imperial Chemicals and head of the Federation of British Industries; the U.S. contingent by Board Chairman Philip Reed of General Electric. The council met for the first time late in October, then set off on a whirlwind tour of factories-electrical and mechanical engineering, clothing, tire and radio plants near London, machine tool and auto plants in Birmingham, textile factories in Bradford, pottery works in Stoke, the busy Clydeside shipyards in Glasgow...
Died. Dr. John Bain ("Jock") Sutherland, 59, topflight football coach; after a brain tumor operation; in Pittsburgh. Light on razzle-dazzle and heavy on rock-&-sock fundamentals, he got the University of Pittsburgh five Rose Bowl bids in his 15 years (1924-39) as coach there, afterwards boosted the lowly Pittsburgh Steelers professional team to a position of power in the National League. His outstanding lifetime winning percentage...
...winners are: Lewis McA. Branscomb 2G, Wayland C. Griffith '45 2G, Peter MacNair 2G, Peter H. Nash 1G, Henry H. McR. Bain, Jr. 1G, Charles Breunig...