Word: equilibrium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married and divorced from 1) a Springfield, Mass. barber named Frank White ("God, he smelled nice!"), 2) Nicky Arnstein, 3) Billy Rose, Fanny is now a Hollywood homebody, recently affected by inner-ear trouble which bothers her equilibrium. Her principal hobby is painting-her home swarms with relatives, in-laws, friends, all painting away like mad. Of her own works, Fanny complains: "They always come out primitive...
...know how careful Inventor Volf's observations of stumbling babes and drunks may have been (TIME, July 10), but it would be a physical impossibility for equilibrium to be disturbed on an east-west line due to motion of the earth. In physics rotation is considered as an acceleration, but this fact would cause an infant to fall southward in the northern hemisphere, northward in the southern hemisphere, not at all on the equator. TIME'S SCIENCE section is highly informative, but this item looks like a bum steer...
Lecturing at Los Angeles' John Tracy ear clinic (named for Spencer Tracy's deaf son), Volf propounded a revolutionary theory: physiologists have been all wrong in teaching that the ear's semicircular canals are responsible for man's equilibrium. Equilibrium, said Volf, is an acquired trait that man has to learn by becoming "attuned to rhythmic conformity with the rotation of the earth...
...verdict on the age that caught up with him in Rome last week: "In solitude it is possible to love mankind; in the world, for one who knows the world, there can be nothing but secret or open war." "Perhaps," he added, "the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies...
...Public Opinion [against the Axis] would be more effective . . . if President Roosevelt should make a gesture of genuine friendship toward our people; such a gesture might be the urgent provision of airplanes, spare parts, armaments and machinery to restore Argentina to the position of equilibrium to which it is entitled...