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...Cobb, and his brother Edward Benedict Cobb, who was also a New York attorney for a time, both inherited large sums from their father. Benedict Cobb was a graduate of Yale in 1872, and his will, made public last month, revealed a long infra-family rivalry, for Benedict Cobb left nearly $1,800,00 to the New Haven institution...
...looked like an arriving movie actress. A year later, Bette's contract was not renewed and she was ready to leave town. But George Arliss, about to make The Man Who Played God for Warner Brothers, wanted a dignified young actress with whom it might not seem infra dig for him to fall in love...
...written across it. For 19 months Professor Lewis pored over his find. Chemical analysis proved to his satisfaction that the ink was Elizabethan. Microscopic study put, the paper in the same period. Photographic enlargements permitted minute comparisons with known Shakespearian signatures. Ultraviolet photographs established the type of pen used; infra-red photographs showed no tracings beneath the ink. Shakespeare himself, said Professor Lewis, wrote that name. But where the paper came from, who owned it, how it reached Salt Lake City, what happened to the rest of the document, he could not or would...
Visible light does not penetrate thick fog, but visible light is only a small segment on the wide spectrum of electro-magnetic radiation. Radiation which is too long in wave length to be seen, called infra-red and embracing wireless waves of all lengths, has the faculty of sliding around obstacles such as fog particles. Therefore an artificial eye which "sees" by infra-red radiation appears to offer the best hope of piercing...
Four years ago Commander Paul Humphrey Macneil demonstrated a fog-eye which made use of infra-red radiation in the region of heat waves, naturally emitted by all objects warmer than absolute zero (TIME, May 8, 1933). It turned on warning lights, rang a gong when a fog-shrouded vessel passed another ship. Few months later Master Mariner Flavel M. Williams installed on the Manhattan and Washington a camera which took a picture of an obstacle through fog by infra-red radiation, producing the developed film 30 seconds after exposure (TIME...