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Harvard and six other local colleges yesterday formed a Greater Boston Baseball League, Ivan Geiger, M.I.T. athletic director and the league's first president, announced last night...
...formation of the local baseball league also points to a possibility of a Greater Boston Basketball League, perhaps in the next year or two. Most of the local schools play each other anyway, and the impetus of league competition might revive spectator interest in the game, Geiger said. He also saw the possibility of forming a Track Conference in the very near future. At present, all the schools, with the exception of Harvard and Brandeis, are members of the New England Hockey League...
...first Dr. Jones had to measure the blood flow by holding a Geiger counter over the muscle of a subject who had inhaled a radioisotope of an inert gas such as krypton or argon. That was expensive and took a long time. Now, by measuring the carbon dioxide generated in muscles during exercise, Dr. Jones can get his answers in a few minutes...
...Prospector. After war's end, the Atomic Energy Commission gave uranium mining a big boost by a system of bonus payments. In one month, 1,133 prospectors checked in at AEC headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo. "For a while," says a resident, "we were swamped with guys with Geiger counters and shovels. When you went up on the mesa they popped up behind every bit of sagebrush like Indians. But few did any good...
...Geiger, an American G.I., came back from Italy with an odd trophy in his barracks bag : a print of Roberto Rossellini's Open City, one of the first movies made in liberated Italy. Geiger had bought the exclusive U.S. rights for $13,000. In seven years the film, which startled U.S. audiences with its documentary realism, grossed more than...