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The problem of using light for spectra more efficiently has goaded skygazers for years. Astronomers at Mt. Wilson and California Institute of Technology were putting their money last week on a device called an "image-slicer," invented by Caltech's quiet, brilliant Ira Sprague Bowen. No bigger than a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Image-Slicer | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Arrival of color photography as a standard item of Hollywood technique will be signalized only when critics give it the final seal of their approval by not mentioning it at all. Valley of the Giants is photographically far enough ahead of its time to deserve this type of accolade. Rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 19, 1938 | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

The Milky Way galaxy has been popularized as a vast agglomeration of stars shaped like a lens or a discus, or like two very shallow saucers glued together rim to rim. So far as the dense masses of the Milky Way are concerned, this is scientifically correct. But in recent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Galactic Pumpkin | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

At a meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Stockholm last week, Dr. Shapley reported on 2,000 Cepheid variables (giant stars which fluctuate regularly in brightness) at considerable distances from the Milky Way's central plane. These have the effect of stretching the galaxy's "vertical" diameter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Galactic Pumpkin | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

Meanwhile, his buildings, spotted around Europe, excited critics. Henry-Russell Hitchcock called his first, in Wiesbaden, Germany, among the world's best modern houses, was as enthusiastic about two small apartment buildings in Zurich. At the Harvard exhibition, visitors were impressed most by the variety and ingenuity of Architect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Architectural Odyssey | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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