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Died. Dr. Leo Hendrik" Baekeland, 80, father of plastics; in Beacon, N.Y. In 1909 courtly, dignified, Belgian-born Baekeland invented Bakelite (oxybenzyl-methylenglycolanhydride) - the first successful, noninflammable, synthetic solid. He got his start in 1880 when, as the youngest student at the University of Ghent, he developed Velox paper, a photographic milestone which killed tintypes and netted him a reputed $1,000,000 from Eastman Kodak. Baekeland made possible the "improbable sandwich" (plywood) by his work in 1912 on a synthetic resin filler. He was also honored for : separation of cadmium and copper, oxidation of hydrochloric acid under light, dissociation...
When the Abbey of Monte Cassino was bombed last week, it was not only the destruction of the 1,400-year-old religious and cultural monument that stirred the world. It was the thought that the Abbey of Monte Cassino, a unique beacon of the spirit lit at the very onset of the Dark Ages, was being demolished by the military necessities of a civilization closer to the brink than any other has been since that earlier human crisis...
Disgust in Rome. The man who lit the beacon was St. Benedict of Nursia. The facts of St. Benedict's life were all but lost in Europe's long cultural night. The little that is known comes from the Dialogues of St. Gregory. According to St. Gregory, St. Benedict was born (at Nursia in Umbria) about...
Until the Christian Beacon printed the story last week the Navy had considered the five-month-old episode a routine matter. Such scrupulous resignations from the Chaplains' Corps run about...
...Christian Beacon found the matter indicative of "a most deplorable and desperate condition" in the Navy. The Beacon's editor, the Rev. Carl Mc-Intire, took the occasion to wind up with a slap at Chief of Naval Chaplains Robert D. Workman, "who is a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and who . . . has set out to produce a chaplaincy corps in the Navy which is streamlined according to his own ideas. . . . This information is brought with the one desire of helping to correct the condition, and that we shall have a man at the head...