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Cosmic Ripples. Dr. Arnold Heim. famed oil & mining consultant, attended the I. G. C. as a delegate of the Swiss Government and the Swiss Academy of Science. Landing in Manhattan last month, he made news by promising to disclose a new theory to explain the twitchings that have changed earth's face. Last week he kept his promise. First with merciless logic he assailed the old thesis that earth's crustal movements represented the spending of terrestrial energy...
...forces," said Dr. Heim, "which have waved, lifted, folded, crumpled, thrust and faulted the earth's crust . . . seem to be regarded as the result of the earth's energetic reserve. If so, each crustal movement should mean a lessening of the total reserve of earth's energy, so that succeeding . . . movements should be smaller than earlier ones. . . . This does not seem to be borne out by the facts...
Some" cosmic impulse of mysterious origin, said Dr. Heim, must be imagined to explain not only the crustal movements, but also fitful accelerations in the rate of earth's rotation and displacements in the position of its axis. Thus he pictured an earth not growing more & more inert, like a snake in the cold, as it consumed its legacy of energy from the sun, but an earth constantly stirred by fresh cosmic im pulses-"although," he added, "the Newton to explain them has not yet come...
...elbow hip-swinging models about. Blue-jowled buyers scribble earnestly in little books. There is much confusion. One thing Paris couturiers have learned from Hollywood: to produce at each spring and autumn opening a certain number of freak gowns, shown only for their publicity value. Thus the Swiss designer Heim, opening his new shop on the Champs Elysees, showed sports dresses of natural burlap with clothesline girdles; Jane Regny had a combination evening gown and bathing suit; Gabrielle Chanel had gloves of 18-carat spun gold; Maggy Rouff showed evening gowns with a zipper down the front from neck...
...feet from the goal line, on the last play of the game, Charley Heim carried the ball for Yale. He was tackled for a 5-yd. loss. Score: 0 to 0, against tiny Bates College of Lewiston, Maine...