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...story of Jesus Christ, told once & for all in the Gospels, has never since been altered, diminished or improved. Few have felt themselves competent to try;* none has succeeded. The latest attempter is Robert Graves, good poet, practical literary workman and mighty leaper-to-conclusions...
Author of this idea was unorthodox Physicist Felix Ehrenhaft, whom most of his colleagues consider a champion leaper-to-a-conclusion. Last year Dr. Ehrenhaft started a sharp argument among physicists by announcing that magnetism has currents which flow like electricity (TIME, May 22). At a Manhattan meeting of the American Physical Society last week, he told how he had projected a very fine light beam vertically in a glass tube, then dropped into the beam microscopic particles of matter (e.g., chromium). When the particles were smaller than the light's wave length, they fell straight down. But bigger...
Frogs jumped all over Manhattan last week. Out of nearly 700 contestants, 34 made the finals of the first city championships since 1935. Winners: Baby, an entry of the Boys Club, 5 ft. flat; Superman of the Y.M.C.A., 4 ft. 6 in.; an unchristened Police Athletic League leaper...
...Jersey contribution was by Warner Bros., whose interest in the affair was tainted with professionalism (see p. 56). The winners' jockeys, all boys, achieved their victories in various ways. Baby's jockey gave him a fight talk; Superman's said a last-minute prayer; the nameless leaper's rested on his luck. Flash, the world-champion jumper (15 ft. 10 in. in 1941), gave a demonstration, but the best that was in him was 3 ft. 6 in. Jumpers burn out young...
Danny Endweiss, Yale's brilliant 130-point diver, is still out with an appendix operation; Ed Gibson, Navy leaper who has also cracked 130, is unable to enter, and Army's Crandall, another crackerjack diver, probably will not be able to compete. Thus, Rusty has the best chance, of the Harvard delegation, of bringing home the bacon...