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...second biggest and (it is hoped) the most powerful cyclotron in the world was nearing completion last week. It was being built at Nevis, Columbia University's atomic country estate near Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y. The 2,300-ton magnet (whose concentrated field will make electrified particles whirl in obedient circles) has been assembled out of 60-ton steel chunks. The drum-shaped pole pieces in the center will be wound with coils containing 150 tons of copper. The building, to be banked with earth to block deadly radiation, is finished...
Second Generation. Most of George Washington Hill's success was due to the whopping sums he spent to trumpet his products ($20,000,000 in one year alone). He was socially retiring, lived in quiet retreat on his Hudson Valley estate in Irvington, N.Y., where he kept Japanese deer, black & white swans and two dachshunds (Mr. Lucky and Mrs. Strike). But in his ads he was loud. He insisted on catchy slogans, exaggeration and repetition, tapped the untouched women's cigaret market with "Reach for a Lucky Instead of a Sweet...
...Morgan who died last week was not of that breed. A tycoon by inheritance, he was not a buccaneer by nature. Born in 1867 at Irvington-on-Hudson, at the beginning of his father's career, "Jack" Morgan was brought up in a genteel tradition, educated at St. Paul's School and Harvard, served a turn in his father's expanding firm, in 1898 departed for London...
Having passed the two preliminary obstacles, successful candidates should complete their enlistment by applying with three letters of recommendation and a birth certificate to Lt. Michael T. Neary at the South Armory, Irvington St. (off Huntington Ave.), in Boston...
Sirs: Suggest that you refrain from using TIME'S important front cover for likenesses such as that of the yellow ape on your issue of Dec. 22. ... EDWIN DREXEL GODFREY Irvington-on-Hudson...