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Street & Smith Publications, Inc., famed for its dominance of the wood-pulp fiction field, last week issued its first smooth-paper, non-fiction magazine, Progress, a 15? monthly review of science, invention, industry. Its editor is Austin C. Lescarboura, onetime managing editor of Scientific American. Prime difference from other popular scientific magazines: Progress is written mainly by authorities, does not tell amateurs how to build gadgets at home. Features of the first issue: more on Life-After-Death by Sir Oliver Lodge; an argument for parachutes for airline passengers by 'Chute-Inventor Floyd Smith; industrial application of intelligence tests...
...forgotten was the issue upon which hostilities broke?Avco's quiet move to purchase North American Aviation, Inc.?while "ins" and "outs" battled in print for proxies to control a Dec. 21 stockholders' meeting...
...From a portrait by Eric Kennington. Reproduced from the limited edition of Revolt in the Desert published in London by Jonathan Cape, Ltd. Courtesy of Duttons, Inc...
...Baptist committee of five was formed, headed by Engineer Albert Lyon Scott (Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc.). Because the subject seemed too big for five lone Baptists, an invitation was sent to the laymen of the Presbyterian, Congregational, Episcopal, Methodist, Dutch Reformed and United Presbyterian churches. After a preliminary fact-finding study, an Appraisal Commission headed by Engineer Scott and Philosophy Professor William Ernest Hocking of Harvard, set out to tour the Orient for nine months, returned to the U. S. last summer, began releasing its report to the public last month (TIME...
Radio likewise made several financial adjustments last week. The two electric companies agreed to wipe off $8,938,000 of RCA's $17,938,000 debt to them. GE bought Radio's uptown Manhattan building for $4,745,000. Rockefeller Center Inc. at the same time agreed to let RCA reduce the amount of space it has leased, accepting $5,000,000 worth of preferred RCA stock for this concession...