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...fact that the cakes he baked, as part of his presentation, usually caved flat as a platter. A Ph.D. (Yale, 1925), he spent his early career studying the phenomenon of ionization, began working on the cyclotron as early as 1930. He first demonstrated it that year with a crude but scientifically overwhelming do-it-yourself kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, toy-sized four-inch magnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of window glass, brass and sealing wax. Nobel Prizewinner (1939) Lawrence is a humorous, vigorous man who steams around his labs with-as nucleonics folk term it-all rods...
...clear case of mistaken identity. Mumbled Marlon to Truman: "Tennessee has made a fixed association between me and Kolwalski. I mean, we're friends and he knows that as a person I am just the opposite of Kowalski, who was everything I'm against-totally insensitive, crude, cruel. But still Tennessee's image of me is confused...
...Levene is a deft low-comedy actor, Ellen McRae a fresh and attractive heroine, Robert Webber a likably convincing hero. They endow the show's better scenes with life and laughs, and Playwright Locke has a knack for bright broad lines. But bad hobbles after good, and crude latches onto clever in a shamelessly oversolicitous, never-change-the-subject exploitation of the girl-who-cries-wolf theme. Fair Game not only tosses in every gimmick, it usually tosses it in twice. And it not only spells out every word, it has a resolutely meager vocabulary...
...first eight months of the year were off 6%. Newsprint production declined in September and was expected to dip further in the final quarter; higher production costs had trimmed paper-company profits by 20% to 30%. In prospering Alberta, a slump in both domestic and export sales of crude oil cut scheduled November production to the lowest rate in 2½ years. Drilling was off, and one drilling contractor reported: "One third of our rigs are down and the others are not making any money." And prairie farmers counted their losses in millions of dollars when early storms dumped...
...crude, vulgar and unbecoming display of a nasty temper." Thus wrote Florida's Supreme Court in 1953, scolding Circuit Judge Stanley Milledge for the way he had bawled out an attorney in his courtroom. In Miami last week, testy, white-haired Judge Milledge, 61, flew into another tantrum and onto Florida front pages in probably the least judicial photograph of a judge yet to reach print...