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...John G. Trump, 28, an unobtrusive electrical engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr, Richard Dresser, 43, an equally unobtrusive Boston Roentgenologist, will soon have in operation in Boston's Huntington Memorial Hospital a room-high electrostatic machine which will produce x-rays of 1,000,000-volt power, penetrating enough to reach any cancer within the human body. The principle of the machine is that of the 10,000,000-volt electrostatic generator which Engineer Trump's M. I. T. teacher, Robert J. Van de Graaff, invented (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933 et ante). Fast moving paper...
...Author: Dr. David Seabury's real name was Dresser until he legally changed it to his mother's maiden name. Born in Boston, he published How to Worry Successfully on his 51st birthday. Previously he wrote four volumes of the same type (Unmasking Our Minds, Growing into Life, What Makes Us Seem So Queer, Keep Your Wits). Educated at Boston's Chauncy Hall School, in Florence, London, Paris, Munich, Rome and Harvard, Dr. Seabury began practice as a psychologist in Manhattan at the age of 29, became consulting psychologist for New York City in 1921. Married...
Pete was a pleasant-appearing, healthy, realistic Philadelphia boy who grew up in a neighborhood where he never had a chance. He spent a little time in a reform school, was mixed up in a few mild robberies, became a snappy dresser, a smooth dancer, a competent wisecracker, a good fighter who suffered the agreeable misfortune of being pursued by pretty, immoral girls who could not leave him alone. A shifty friend named Slavin got him a job in a bank, but just as Pete was beginning to get ahead, Slavin was arrested for theft...
Coach Bert Haines is drilling two Freshman 150 crews daily, but still declines to pick either one as the first. These two crews have lined up with Dresser, Nailson, Richardson, Goodwin, Swain, Wulsin, Whitney, and Korbell in one boat and Rogers, Anderson, Phalle, Enos, Chase, Cheever, Myers, and Gilkey in the other, with Barrett and Ballon as coxes...
Toby pulled a large scrap book out of a dresser drawer and laughingly revealed clippings of the pictures taken on her recent trip to Cambridge to review the Hasty Pudding chorus. Her comments were enthusiastic. "They were all the grandest bunch of boys," she exclaimed. "The ones I met were all very nice and awfully good looking. They didn't seem at all embarassed to life their skirts for the cameramen when the pictures were taken. I really had a lot of fun and enjoyed every minute of my visit...