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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of electronic magnification has been a live subject in physics for a decade. Foundations of the technique were laid down in Germany in 1926-27. Other work has been done in Belgium and in the U. S. by Dr. Clinton Joseph Davisson of Bell Telephone Laboratories, who won a Nobel Prize in physics last year for experimentally demonstrating the wave nature of electrons. Some years ago, Astronomer Francois Charles Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory suggested that an electronic telescope (converting feeble starlight into electric current by means of photoelectric cells) could be built which would equal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Super-Microscope | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

...Clinton E. Knox 2G goes the Cutting fellowship for Research in Physics, while Arthur Y. Berger and Henry G. Mishkin 2G have been named to the Paine Travelling Fellowships in Music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Messing Among 11 Named To Foreign Study Fellowships | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...first place, said Mrs. Hebner, the corpse in her cellar was not her husband's. In the second place, she had five husbands, among whom Will Hebner was distinguished chiefly for having married her first-in Clinton, Ill. in 1897, using the name of Samuel Sullivan. Asked where she had acquired her taste for polygamy, Mrs. Hebner readily obliged. Will Hebner had deserted her shortly after their wedding, remained away for some 30 years. On his return, by which time she had been a widow and a wife again, he had told her his real name, revealed that while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Cupid's Messenger | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...Lady Plunket to visit Publisher Hearst's San Simeon Ranch, glided down to San Luis Obispo field in a heavy fog. The pilot overshot his mark, crashed. All three were killed. Next night, in Reno's various clubs, including Club Fortune, Mrs. Lois Clarke de Ruyter Spreckels Clinton, her divorced sugar-heir husband, Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., and two friends toasted each other until all hours. Before dawn they boarded Mr. Spreckels' private plane to fly to San Francisco. The plane rose 100 feet, nose-dived into a swamp. Results: a fractured pelvis for gay Mrs. Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 7, 1938 | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Class of 1940: Joseph N. Ball, Jr., Philadelphia; Robert S. Bart, West Redding, Connecticut; Melvin B. Black, Roxbury; Robert H. Clapp, Watertown; William N. Dale, Clinton, New York; Otto W. Fick. Jr.; Oak Park, Illinois; George M. Firestone, St. Paul, Minnesota: Arnold S. Gale, Brookline; Tudor Gardiner, Gardiner, Maine; Leonard C. Holvik, Elbow Lake, Minnesota; Garfield H. Horn, Elk Grove, California; Ward MacL. Hussey, Chicago, Illinois; George S. Kurland, Dorchester; Paul Olum. Binghampton, New York; Robert L. Peesok. Peninsula, Ohio; Isadore N. Rosenberg Boston; Stanley J. Sigel, Portland, Maine; Charles G. Swain Wolaston; Leverett S. Tuckerman, Jr., Saem: and Harry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 42 AWARDED DETUR PRIZE BOOKS FOR TOP SCHOLARSHIP | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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