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...stepped forward with the Discovery of the Century, yet last week's meeting of the American Chemical Society in Manhattan was far from the usual, humdrum semi-annual convention. The Society's historians, led by Dr. Charles Albert Browne of the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry & Soils, had agreed that chemical industry in the New World got its start in 1635. This meeting, therefore, was to be a 300th anniversary jubilee. Current researches would be reported as always-for example, a symposium on brewing methods and a conducted tour of Jacob Ruppert's brewery...
...Deeply sympathized with Godfearing, humdrum Conservative Hamer Russell M. P. who fainted dead away last week when his sprightly son John received a five-year jail sentence for "attempted murder"; in abetting the attempted suicide of an expectant mother and abetting on two other occasions illegal operations. Said Expectant-Mother Carol Leadbeater: "I still love John and want to marry him. He did not throw me into the River Trent! No such thing...
...laboratory at Norway's Oslo University one day last week there was no humdrum of routine work. Instead the atmosphere was charged with excitement and apprehension. Surrounded by colleagues who stood ready to man pulmotors and apply stimulants if something went wrong, Professor Klaus Hansen (Toxicology & Pharmacology) gulped down a scientific cocktail which cost $25 and just filled two teaspoons. Reason for the spinal shivers was not the cost of the drink but the fact that it was 98% pure "heavy water...
...versatile author in her own right, will expect something unusual from A Pin to See the Peepshow. Readers to whom she is not even a name may be agreeably surprised at the bright zest of its introductory pages, increasingly depressed as its long middle section threatens to turn hopelessly humdrum. But they will do well to persevere. From boring realism the story finally emerges into agonizing, deeply moving life...
...beach. A poet and a War veteran, Richard Aldington is neither trash nor treasure but an excellent example of a soundly second-rate writer. A poet by trade, Author Aldington has lately turned to satirical novels whose unenlightened realism makes good reading for those who like their humdrum with a seasoning of malice. Since English Author Aldington puts only his own countrymen in his pillory portraits, U. S. readers can gaze on them with a certain equanimity. Latest Aldington exhibit is the Emancipated Female, British style...