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Heavy Neon. Isotopes are forms of the same element having different atomic weights. Most famed isotope is "heavy hydrogen" for which Columbia's Harold Clayton Urey won last year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dr. Gustav Hertz of Berlin's Siemens Engineering Works told how he extracted 98% pure ''heavy neon" (atomic weight 22) from ordinary neon (atomic weight 20). The separation, accomplished with the help of mercury in a long series of connected flasks, was so ingenious that Dr. Hertz's description of it was heartily clapped, and when he had finished...
...bald, tangle-bearded Alfred Hertz and the San Francisco Symphony opened the tenth annual summer concerts in the Woodland Theatre at Hillsborough, Calif. These concerts are the intense concern of rich Mrs. Leonora Wood Armsby, friend of many a famed musician. From her experience as patron-director of the concerts, Mrs. Armsby has written a book. Musicians Talk in which she frequently refers to visitors at her home-Gabrilowitsch, Hertz, Tibbett, Molinari, Walter, Coates- as "the celebrities." This summer's Hillsborough celebrities: Richard Lert, Basil Cameron, Jose Iturbi...
...Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's three-year-old filly Black Helen: the $25,000 added American Derby; with Mrs. John D. Hertz's Count Arthur half a length behind; at Washington Park, Chicago...
...Messrs. Hertz, Odium & Fortington also had rich friends who liked the looks of the Paramount wreck. Stockholders, bondholders, trade creditors, and the big banks all had conflicting claims. But the importance of Messrs. Hertz, Odium, Fortington & friends was the fact that together they owned nearly $20,000,000 face value of defaulted Paramount debentures and other claims. What was more, they had shrewdly purchased most of the bonds after the company went bankrupt. Thus it was that Messrs. Hertz, Odium et al. had much more to say about the reorganization plan which went to the courts last November than...
...secret was John Hertz's cordial dislike for the banking house at No. 52 William Street, Manhattan, but Kuhn, Loeb was an enduring tradition in Paramount. Not until last January was the final Kuhn, Loeb fade-out effected. Then the slate of new directors was proposed without a Kuhn, Loeb partner. The $6,000,000 of underwriting involved in reorganization was handled by Mr. Odium's Atlas Corp. for a nominal 1% (TIME...