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Hopefully, the photographs were fed into "Franckenstein," a machine developed by Lab Mechanic Jack Franck, which automatically measured the curvature, angle and length of the star's lines and recorded the data on a punched card. Then Professor Arthur H. Rosenfeld fed the cards into a digital computer set up to search for stars that suggested the presence of an invisible intermediate particle. Only 93 of the 2,500 stars showed the computer what it was looking for. Carefully reexamined, the stars proved that when an antiproton hits a proton, it sometimes creates five mesons-two positive pions...
...government, whose use it was designed for, its blackball power is even greater. Last week, a public information officer in Germany, John Franckenstein, encountered the list and lost his job. Small matter that he was a war hero credited with single-handedly liberating an entire Austrian town from the Nazis, or that he had been singled out for his post-war service record. What did count was the fact that he had spent three weeks working at a camp in New Mexico which subsequently appeared on the Attorney-General's list...
Married. Writer Kay Boyle (The First Lover, My Next Bride), 40; and Private Joseph Maria Franckenstein, 32; she for the third time, he for the first; five days after she divorced Writer Laurence Vail; in Salt Lake City...
...hoped was a slap at Adolf Hitler their rulers performed two exceptional acts last week in quick succession: 1) Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare waived formalities, turned into a British subject the jobless longtime (1920-38) Minister of Austria to the Court of St. James's, Baron Georg Franckenstein (who in spite of his beaked nose is an Aryan); 2) King George VI called his new subject to Buckingham Palace, dubbed him Sir George Franckenstein, Knight...
...Baron Franckenstein of Austria, to be presented...
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