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...Lincoln, Neb. Professor John C. Jensen of Nebraska Wesleyan University ponders lightning. Currently he has shed light thereon in the Physical Review...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Light on Lightning | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...other hand, Dr. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1927 Nobel Prizewinner with Arthur Holly Compton) has claimed that the top of the cloud is positive, the bottom negative, and Nebraska Wesleyan's Jensen last month backed him up in the Physical Review. Sitting at night in the window of a high campus building long-jawed, slow-spoken Professor Jensen has been taking photographs of lightning flashes for seven years using a large-size news camera with an extra large lens. For the past two years, with his son's help, he has also been using an insulated metal deck connected with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Light on Lightning | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...eldest son of Denmark's late King Frederick VIII, whose second son was elected King of Norway in 1905. Also tender-hearted though of stern appearance, Norway's King Haakon was much moved by the acquittal two years ago of his subject Mrs. Marie Jensen, who had killed her husband with an axe. Penitent, Mrs. Jensen not only confessed her crime but begged the local jury to convict her. They, knowing Mr. Jensen, insisted on acquitting the self-confessed murderess, who burst into loud sobs. To help soothe her, King Haakon started a "sympathy fund" for Mrs. Jensen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Tender Brothers | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

Next day Hoiriis & Hillig flew back to Denmark for a reception at the pilot's birthplace, Braband. But the important city of Aarhus only three miles away, capital of the county, disdained to take official notice of their visit. The flight, said Burgomaster Jacob Jensen, was "haphazard luck." Had the flyers not named Copenhagen as their destination? And had they not floundered about over Spain and France before getting their bearings? So what if they had flown across the Atlantic Ocean safely? Many another has done the same. That is nothing nowadays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Pretold Story | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...shown at the White House. But he may well be startled to behold himself and Mrs. Hoover performing on the East Room screen if Universal Up for Murder, now in production, is given a White House run. To play the part of "Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover," Patrolman Tom Jensen received special leave of absence from the Los Angeles police force. Jessie Perry acts Mrs. Hoover. They have nothing to do with the plot. They simply sit in a box at a Washington ball. In the story, laid in Washington apparently during the Harding era, wise Washingtonians may recognize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Red Cross Crisis | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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