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...language, and it takes astronomy to the edge of theology, physics to the edge of metaphysics. It raises such questions as whether the universe came into being suddenly, or whether it existed forever-and in that case, what is "forever"? What is eternity? "The subject," says Science Writer Leon Jaroff, "makes the mind boggle, especially when you get into the area of cosmology, into the Einsteinian concept of space...
...Jaroff, who holds Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Michigan in both electrical engineering and mathematics, kept the story as unboggling for laymen as possible, but did not hesitate to make it fairly technical where necessary. He wrote the article from his own notes, with the help of Researcher Fortunata Sydnor Trapnell and major contributions from TIME bureaus. During an interview with Schmidt at Caltech, Jaroff was especially pleased when the astronomer let TIME in on a secret. "I looked through the microscope at the photo plate showing the latest quasar he discovered," says Jaroff...
...automobile design centers. Last fall Senior Editor Cranston Jones, who recalls that those closed doors have been bothering him off and on ever since he saw them at the General Motors Technical Center in 1956, proposed a color story that would get behind them. Detroit Bureau Chief Leon Jaroff tried the idea on the automakers and got one after another of them to agree. Next step was for Associate Editor Peter Bird Martin, whose assignment is color projects, to work out a specific plan for the story...
Russian Fair (Don Cossack Chorus Serge Jaroff conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). The Cossacks sound, as required, like a chorus of cherubim or a convention of harmonizing tobacco auctioneers. Performance: good...
Conductor Jaroff, small and spry as a cricket, is the chorus' most compelling individual on & off stage. Last year's audiences marked also with special interest Cossack Tierekov, a bass said to have the lowest voice on record, and Cossack Ovtchinikov, whose falsetto is so high that the Don Cossacks are often suspected of concealing a woman in their ranks. Hostesses who entertained the Russians last year or who hired them as performing bears for parties, will remember: handsome Cossack Magnuschensky, the lady-killer, Cossack Kolesnikoff, a bright, understanding little fellow who has a score of anecdotes ready...