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French Physicist Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-68) installed the first Foucault pendulum in Paris's Pantheon in 1851. That one, since dismantled, was 200 feet long. Foucault's idea was to prove the rotation of Earth on its axis. A pendulum which is swinging freely in space keeps to the same line, whereas compass directions beneath the pendulum are constantly changing as the earth rotates. This apparent shift was duly performed by the pendulum of Jean Bernard Leon Foucault. Such demonstrations always make a great impression on students of elementary physics...
...were such upland musical celebrities as bristle-bearded Fiddler Jilson Setters and Brother Dawson of Rowan County, who leads his Gregorian Chanters through old liturgical chants. Also present, in full plaid regalia, were ballad-singing Director Lyda Messer Caudill, direct hillbilly descendant of Mary Queen of Scots, and Author Jean Thomas,* "traipsin' woman" who founded the festival after "traipsin'"all over the neighboring mountains collecting the songs of the mountaineers...
From his 24-year exile in Switzerland, famed novelist playwright, pacifist Romain Rolland (Jean-Christophe, Soul Enchanted), 72, returned to his native France to end his days, "a man broken in heart, body and spirit...
...laying bets right & left. The twelve finalists had been moved from their lodgings to the Royal Palace in suburban Laeken. There each of them was shut in a soundproof room with a piano and a brand-new manuscript copy of an unpublished (and unknown) concerto by Belgian Composer Jean Absil, composed especially for the occasion. For seven days they sweated over this assignment, kept from contact with the outside world but allowed to walk in the Palace grounds and chat occasionally with the Queen...
Married. Harold Fowler McCormick, 66, twice-married (to Edith Rockefeller, Ganna Walska) chairman of International Harvester Co.; to Adah Wilson. 34. nurse who tended the late Jean Harlow before she died, nursed Mr. McCormick this winter during a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif...