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While Fred Learned restrained a Yankee grin and 1,000 guests hunched forward expectantly, Dr. Evans "vacuumed" him with a Geiger counter similar to the ones which will be used at the Bikini atom bomb test. When placed near his throat, the sensitive device set up a clatter which, amplified for the audience, was clearly audible in the banquet hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Era of New Hope? | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

That was in 1930, at the bar of London's Old Bailey. Hatry's name was indeed a byword-for financial juggling at its most spectacular. When all his Indian clubs clatter-banged down together in 1929, investors lost $145,000,000. Hatry's crash shook shaky Wall Street. But last week Clarence Hatry, out of jail, was far from irretrievably ruined. From the look of things he was building up another fortune-his third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Hatry's Return | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...rickety, five-story house on Manhattan's West 46th Street, well within earshot of Broadway's clatter and chatter, Variety last week passed its 40th birthday. To celebrate it, pink-cheeked, bow-tied Editor Abel Green, 44, and his staff went to press with a bulging, green-covered, 324-page anniversary number that was five-sixths advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Muggs' Birthday | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...Most up-to-date sound: an atomic bomb explosion, as used in Mutual's The Human Adventure. This was a synthesis of three recorded noises: a dynamite blast, escaping steam and the clatter of a boiler room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Bells & Whistles | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

...Ayen in bedraggled St. Germain, France, stands a bright, pink, three-story schoolhouse. In its library are $25,000 worth of books. Its music room has an electric phonograph and a big collection of classical records. Its basement hums with lathes and its upper floors are alive with the clatter of typewriters and sewing machines. Last week the school awarded its first graduation, certificates-to WACs, for their proficiency in beauty culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Arts of Peace | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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