Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Readers Chase, Henry, Edwin, Trimble (TIME, May 25) and the countless others who disapprove but do not write think it is possible to keep children from seeing the human body unclothed? Must children and adults wear blinders when they visit the traveling Van Gogh Exhibit? Must we as parents and teachers strive to keep children innocent and at the same time expect them to find their way in the world when they leave the protection of the home? My six-year-old son looks at TIME pictures (news and advertising) regularly and of course sees the nude pictures along with...
...elaborate science using small, costly, natural crystals like Iceland spar. Polaroid's sponsors say that it will do anything expensive crystals will, can be inexpensively manufactured in any size. Actual cost figures will probably not be available until large-scale equipment is set up. Developed by Physicist Edwin H. Land, senior partner of an independent Boston laboratory, Polaroid's synthetic organic crystals are bound in a plastic film of cellulose acetate. The tiny crystals are pulled into parallel alignment by stretching the film. The material polarizes about 99.9% of the transmitted light. Other uses for Physicist Land...
...tradepaper to the U. S. Press is James Wright Brown's Editor & Publisher. Last week it contained an announcement which startled its 10,000 readers, mostly admen, newspaper writers, executives, owners. Famed Editor Marlen Edwin Pew was quitting. Reason for his resignation was that Editor Pew, 58, became worried about his health on a recent trip around the world, resolved to get a good rest. Continued was Editor Pew's informal editorial page, "Shop Talk At Thirty." It was announced that Mr. Brown would serve henceforth as both editor and publisher of Editor & Publisher...
...Marlen Edwin Pew was born in Ohio, left school in the seventh grade when his father died. A kindly teacher pieced out Marlen's book learning after hours, "graduated" him in her front parlor. At 15 he took to newspaper work, liked it, never lacked for a good job thereafter. He reported first for the Cleveland Press, worked on the Hearstian New York Evening Journal, was Eastern manager of Newspaper Enterprise Association. In 1912 he helped organize United Press, then edited the Philadelphia News-Post and was proud to be jailed overnight on a criminal libel charge brought...
...annual meeting of Sigma XI, honorary society for science research, 44 new members and four officers were elected. The officers are Edwin G. Boring, professor of Psychology, president; Edwin J. Cohn, professor of Biological chemistry, vice-president; Frank M. Carpenter, assistant curator in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, secretary; and Jacob B. Den Hartog, assistant professor of Applied Mechanics...