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Picturesquely perched on a sandstone bluff above the Straight River, in whose caves the Fleck brewery has been aging beer since Shattuck was a pup, Shattuck makes Christian soldiers every year of some 200 boys who hail from far & wide, pay $1,000 a year for their tuition and upkeep. One of the six military schools in the country which has never had an honor graduate separated from West Point, Shattuck drills its boys as smartly in the classroom as on the parade ground. Shattuck boys call themselves Shads, their food "garbage," the girls of nearby St. Mary...
...Berlin the snowdrifts melted; crossings were flooded; the first flowers-tulips, daisies-went on sale in the streets. In Brussels, where the Lenten processions these days end with prayers that Belgium can keep out of the war; in Switzerland, where patches of brown earth began to fleck the foothills of the Alps, and drove the skiers higher; in Paris, where a sudden blazing sun brought tables back to cafe terraces and cheerful strolling crowds back to the Champs-Elysées-Europe last week was poised between winter and the dread spring that may launch the great offensive...
...puffs from the first explosion is the Milky Way, in which Earth is a fleck of Sun-warmed soot. Other puffs are nebulae traveling 12,000 miles a second. Cosmic rays include flashes of light (Millikan photons) from that explosion, and chips of matter (Compton electrons and/or protons; TIME, Jan. 9). They equal one-tenth the light from all the stars and weigh (Millikan calculation) 10 -34 gram per cubic centimeter.* Mount Wilson's Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble estimates the total amount of matter in space as 10 -31 gram per cubic centimeter. Cosmic radiation thus must be equal...
Appointed. Ottawa's handsome Major William ("Bill") Duncan Herridge, K. C., 42, winner of the D. S. O. Military Cross, and Brigade Majorship in the War, widower of Rose Fleck Herridge, granddaughter of the late John R. Booth who was Canada's richest man (lumber); to be Canadian Minister at Washington...
...Clark 19 Floor 5--P. S. Davis 25 McCULLOCH A Entry--P. N. Harwood A-21 B Entry--W. S. Baxter B-33 C Entry--J. A. Bliss C-13 D Entry--F. Cramer D-34 E Entry--J. L. Wolcott E-31 F Entry--R. C. Fleck F-11 McKINLOCK A Entry--L. A. Francisco A-12 B Entry--F. A. Pickard B-22 C Entry--McCormick D-51 D Entry--E. Pope D-51 MELLON A Entry--E. W. Sexton A-24 B Entry--H. L. Hartman B-35 C Entry--D. P. Farris C-22 D Entry...