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Howard A. Corwin, Maplewood, Biology; Jeremiah G. Tilles, Seaside Heights, Biochemical Sciences...
Strong, Sensitive Scale. The most accurate chemist's scales, those that use quartz fibers as springs, can weigh only tiny quantities. Scales big enough to handle good-sized samples are not nearly as sensitive. Last week Dr. Alsoph H. Corwin of Johns Hopkins University told about a scale that he has developed which is both strong and sensitive. Its beam teeters on a finely polished knife edge of boron carbide (almost as hard as diamond), resting on the same material. The edge is so sharp that the pressure on its minute bearing surface...
...wound up their visit at Brandeis last week came from Hollywood and San Francisco and from as far away as Denver and New York City. Among them: Radio Writer Norman Corwin, Manufacturer (Period Furniture Co.) Edward Meltzer, Papermaker (Hudson Pulp & Paper Co.) Joe Mazer, and David Tannenbaum, acting mayor of Beverly Hills...
...this point, desperate enough to swallow the first kind word he heard, Gunzburg agreed to let a fantasy merchant named Arch Oboler (once known in the radio business as "the daytime Norman Corwin") make a movie called Bwana Devil in Natural Vision. "The truth is," says one moviemaker, "that the movie industry didn't have the sense to follow its own nose into 3-D. They had to be led by a dog." And Bwana Devil-which may prove to be the most important motion picture produced in Hollywood since The Jazz Singer introduced sound in 1927-was indeed...
...York (Corwin) 7, Brooklyn...