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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Simple Soul. Late one night in 1931 a Russian tenor named Vladimir Doriani hunched his small, round bulk into a Russian train on the way from one small town to another. At about 2 a.m., dozing, he began to look at other passengers and they looked strange: like cutouts. Singer Doriani, who had always hated pictures felt overcome by a desire to draw...
...those of an unknown named William Doriani. Last week, amid sophisticated hosannas on 57th Street, the works of Tenor Doriani painted in fresh color patterns with flattened childish figures, were exhibited at the Marie Harriman Gallery as pure naïve paintings in a class with those of the late Pittsburgh House Painter John Kane...
...late great Albert Abraham Michelson, in his final experiments, reflected light back & forth ten times in a mile-long vacuum tube from the faces of a rapidly spinning, 3 2-sided mirror. Velocity measurements completed by his successors after Michelson's death yielded an average figure of 186,270.75 miles per second. But in individual runs there were unexplained, periodic variations up to twelve miles a second. At first this caused excitement over possibility that the speed of light might not be constant (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933). The clamor was quieted by attributing the variations to "experimental error...
Exuberant "Ronnie" Knox, son of the late Anglican Bishop of Manchester, brother of Editor Edmund George Valpy ("Evoe") Knox of Punch, has been a man of letters since he wrote Latin and Greek epigrams at ten. Brought up an Anglican, he took holy orders soon after leaving Oxford's Balliol College, became Anglican chaplain of Trinity College. Converted to Catholicism before the War, he was ordained priest in 1919. In 1926, the year he became Oxford's chaplain, Father Knox scared England over the radio just as Orson Welles scared the U. S. last autumn: he broadcast...
...Maurice Stephen Sheehy, able young Catholic University executive (TIME, Feb. 13), went on the radio with a scholarly speech detailing the pro-Jewish policies of the Popes, from the earliest (the first Pope, St. Peter, and several of his immediate successors were born Jews) to the late Pius XL Father Sheehy's talk was made under the auspices of a new, interfaith Council Against Intolerance in America...