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...Breaks." Lawrence conceived the basic idea of the cyclotron in 1929 when he read a paper by an obscure German on the behavior of ions in a magnetic field. Next year he and three co-workers -Niels Edlefsen, M. Stanley Livingston and David Sloan-built the first cyclotron with a tank six inches across and a small magnet. It worked, but Lawrence pined for a bigger magnet...
When Andrew Mellon resigned as Secretary of the Treasury in 1932 to become Ambassador to Great Britain, he was followed in Herbert Hoover's Cabinet by his able assistant, Ogden Livingston Mills. This week, Andrew Mellon was followed by his junior again. Not quite six weeks after "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton" died of old age in Southampton, L. I, Ogden Mills, 53, died of heart failure in Manhattan...
Married. Nicholas Ridgley du Pont, 20, brother of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr.; to Genevieve Livingston Estes, 21, of Jacksonville, Fla.; in Jacksonville...
Died. Mrs. Thomas Fortune Ryan, 78, widow of New York's famed banker and subway promoter who left an estate of $135,164,000 in 1928; after a heart attack; in the mansion her husband built at Livingston, Va., where his father was a tailor...
Engaged. Nicholas Ridgley du Pont, 22, brother of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.'s Ethel du Pont; to Genevieve Livingston Estes, 21, Jacksonville, Fla., debutante...