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...years ago he tapped for the Presidency affable Earl ("Pumpkinhead") Godwin of the Washington Times-Herald...
Things went so well in 1938 that the Boss ordered Newshawk Godwin re-elected in 1939. But recently, in keeping with the times, "Pumpkinhead" has been mumbling about a third term. Last week, vacationing in Coral Gables, Boss Young suddenly decided against it, telephoned his hatchetman, knife-witted George Durno of International News Service...
...Godwin is an electrical engineer, Dr. Walker a chemist at Armour Institute of Technology. Both picked up photography as a hobby. In high-speed photography the shorter the exposure time, the more intense the illumination must be to produce a satisfactory impression on the film...
...Godwin and Walker obtain their very bright, very brief flash by discharging 38,000 volts through a vacuum tube filled with mercury vapor at one-twentieth of atmospheric pressure. The voltage source is an X-ray apparatus and the current is stored in a 20-unit Leyden jar condenser...
...Godwin and Walker are by no means the first to "freeze" rapid motion on photographic film. Perhaps the most famed high-speed photographer in the U. S. is Dr. Harold Eugene Edgerton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who for some years has used stroboscopic (intermittently flashing) light to take 6,000 pictures per second...