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...probably is a neutron, smallest bit, last resolvable particle of Matter. Last Summer when Dr. W. Pauli of Zurich propounded the idea at Pasadena, the fact was less certain (TIME, June 29). Last week there was almost no doubt. Dr. James Chadwick of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory, brightest spot of British science, declared for the existence of neutrons. Ernest Baron Rutherford, director of the Cavendish Laboratory, confirmed the investigation. And no brash statements ever come from Professor Rutherford, 1908 Nobel Laureate, the man who established the existence and nature of radioactive transformations, the electrical structure of all matter...
...Brightest gem in his State's judicial crown, Judge Cardozo, a thin-nosed patrician descendant of Sephardic Jews, may be expected to bolster up the Court's fine Liberal-Conservative balance, which was jeopardized by Liberal Justice Holmes's retirement...
...occurs just when things are looking brightest for Mammy's big family. There is plenty of corn laid by for the mules and blackamoors, fattening hogs grunt in their pen, 25^ cotton has provided a fine pair of blue mules, clothes for everybody and $40 for Christmas. A high pile of tinder-dry stovewood is stacked near the cabin door...
...Author, Within the memory of living men, 65-year-old George Ade was accounted one of the three brightest boys in Chicago (the others: Cartoonist John Tinney McCutcheon, Howard Hackett). From a reporter on Chicago's Record George Ade rose to the level of "Mr. Dooley" (Finley Peter Dunne) with his Fables in Slang which H. S. Stone & Co. printed, Clyde J. Newman illustrated. No longer most up-to-date of U. S. slangsters, but wealthy, still unmarried, Author Ade winters in Florida, lives as a gentleman farmer in Brook, Ind. Golfing enthusiast, football fan, he is known...
Last year the newly inaugurated "Harkness Hoot" set the college, and for that matter all Yale, circles by the ears with its plausible and swinging attacks on everything from the university architects to the sacred institution of Tap Day. "The Hoot" was edited by one of Yale's brightest of bright young men, Mr. William Harlan Hale, who, since his graduation has kept his by-line alive in periodicals of greater scope and pretentions, but who, to accomplish his aim, had resigned from the editorial board of the ancient. "Yale Literary Magazine," taking a companion or so with...