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...also baffling news. Last week, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, ex-head of the Los Alamos (atom bomb) Laboratory, postulated a new sub-atomic particle: the neutral meson, which leads an even more feverishly active life than the positive and negative meson which scientists already know about. In its normal habitat within an atomic nucleus, it "lives" only one hundredth of a sextillionth (1/100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th) of a second. The neutral meson's brief life, remarked Professor Oppenheimer, may be the reason no physicist has yet seen...
Last week Wright went after big game in its natural habitat. With a party of 21, eight bear-dogs and an observation plane, he ventured to Bemidji, Minn, for the first organized bear hunt in Minnesota history. Result of a week's hunting: one 400-lb. black bear, one 90-lb. cub, one wolf, 50 porcupine quills in one of the dogs. The Bemidji Chamber of Commerce gave the visiting hunters a bear-steak dinner, slyly provided them with sleeping quarters in a Boy Scout camp...
...Crimson football rooter hold the roseate opinion that Harvard will have everything its own way on Soldiers Field thin Saturday. Although there has not yet been devised any infallible method of judging a team's strength before it has played a game, reports emanating from Storrs, Conn., habitat of the U-Conn-Huskies, as the Crimson's first opponent, likes to be called, seem to indicate that the men from the Nutmeg State should enter the Stadium on at least even terms with the Harlowmen...
...North, it was the bears. From their deserted mountain regions they were drifting down toward forests and villages, killing cattle and even attacking humans. Declared Dr. Nils Dahlbeck, a Swedish bear expert: "They are reclaiming their former habitat. Also, they find populated areas more profitable for variety in diet." Chief victims were the Lapps who experimented for centuries with anti-bear measures. Sample: put brännvin (brandy) under juniper bushes and get the bears drunk...
Many a U.S. businessman has wished that he was big enough to get in to see Elisha Walker in his official habitat: the austere offices of Wall Street's famed international banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., of which he is senior partner. Stiff-starched Banker Walker is not an easy...