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...Only one light for TIME on its rowing-gizmo story [May 20], which failed to mention that the gizmo was not used at the E.A.R.C. sprints. Using a Wizard-equipped shell, Penn beat both Princeton and Yale earlier this season. As for Harvard, well, lightning may strike yet! Instead of "back to the drawing board" for McGinn, the Worcester results suggest that it's back to the lights for Penn...
...electronic gizmo used by the University of Pennsylvania crew brings to mind a device developed by the Yale crew of 1947, on which I was coxswain...
...even hide there any more, pal - at least not at the University of Pennsylvania. John McGinn, an old Penn coxswain and now a scientist in General Electric's laboratories at Valley Forge, Pa., has invented an electronic gizmo that enables Penn Coach Joseph Burk to tell at a glance in practice which of his oarsmen are pulling their weight - and which aren't. Attached to the oarlocks, miniature dynamometers measure the pull on each oar, flash the results on a board of 32 lights - four for each crewman. If all four lights flash on, the oarsman is exerting...
Tinguely had spent three weeks preparing his gizmo, which he called Homage to New York. "New York is a phallic city," he explained, adding that he could not possibly have conceived of a suicidal sculpture anywhere else. His materials included a meteorological trial balloon, many bottles (to break), an upright piano, a gocart, a bathtub, hammers and saws, 80 bicycle wheels and sundry other items, picked for the most part from New Jersey dumps...
...could then smash atoms and transmute elements. He first demonstrated this phenomenon with a crude but spectacular Rube Goldbergish kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, 4-in. electromagnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of glass, brass and sealing wax, all put together for $25. When he hooked this odd gizmo up to an ordinary electric socket, atoms whirled around faster than those emitted by radium...