Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sundowners (Eagle-Lion) is a better-than-routine Technicolored western. Its chief claim to note: it gives his first movie role to John Barrymore Jr., 17, son of the late Great Profile and silent screen beauty Dolores Costello. In a minor part as Jeff Cloud, kid brother of Hero Tom Cloud (Robert Sterling), young John plays with restraint and frequently bears a striking likeness, both in full-face and profile, to his famous father. But his features are too finely chiseled and his acting too low-keyed for all the blood & thunder that goes on in The Sundowners...
...Carl David Anderson of CalTech showed the American Physical Society at Washington a series of cosmic ray pictures providing real evidence that the new particles really do exist. The pictures were made on California's 11,000-ft. White Mountain by a CalTech team working with a "cloud chamber," which records the tracks of charged particles...
...particles makes a track like a "V," with two branches spreading from a single point in space. Therefore, said Anderson, the particle is neutral (while still whole it leaves no track in the cloud chamber), and it disintegrates into two charged particles that do leave tracks. The second new particle has a charge, and therefore leaves a track. But the track has an angle in it, indicating that the original particle turns (at the angle) into two particles, one with a charge and one neutral...
...Atlanta enumerator rode 60 feet into the air on a block & tackle to get the dope from Flagpole-Sitter Odell Smith (address: Cloud No. 65), and one in Detroit obligingly returned three times to set down the facts about a housewife who refused to talk to him while her husband was at home. "I don't tell him anything," she explained. Another housewife urged the census taker to help her discover how much her husband earned. The man who set out to get the count in View Ridge, Wash, (wartime pop. 4,000) suffered a deep shock...
...care to try. Among the few is Burr Miller, whose marble Genetrix stood out at the Whitney like a breathing woman in a waxworks. Robert Cronbach's bas-relief Woman Drinking was contrastingly weightless; by hollowing out his fat, unhappy figure he had transformed her into an alcoholic cloud...