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...Beryozka (Little Birch Tree, so named for a Russian folk song and dance) consists of 31 girls and four male musicians. Opening night was attended largely by professionals of one sort or another-professional British ballet dancers and professional pro-Russians. What they saw looked pretty much like a Russian version of the dances at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. Carrying birch branches and dressed in a variety of robes and Cossack costumes with boots, the girls whirled, waved and wove through a succession of intricate drills and sinuous dances. They displayed great verve, precision and variety...
Those who made the statement which was in the form of a letter to the editor were: Kenneth T. Bainbridge, professor of Physics; Francis Birch '24, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology; and George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry...
They chose Birch, then just an up and coming young physicist who had worked with Bridgman, now a leading man in the study of the combinations of pressure and temperature. With his changing staff--usually between four and five men--Birch has in most recent studies virtually disproven an old theory on heat convections causing mountains and at the same time advancing the study of the earth's pressures...
Since he has been working at Dunbar, Birch, with his powerful impressive machinery has been able to reproduce duplicate pressures of conditions 600 miles below the surface of the earth...
...fact, while he will not outright admit to disproving it, the somewhat close mouthed Birch does confess that he and his researchers have made the theory that convection current beneath the earth's surface are related to the mountains, "highly improbably...