Word: magnetism
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...Hill above Berkeley, Calif, a strange and monstrous machine, the AEC's bevatron,* was slowly coming to life last week. Housed in a circular building 75 feet high is a steel doughnut 135 feet in diameter and weighing 10,000 tons. This is the world's greatest magnet, energized by current flowing through 26.5 miles of copper cable two inches thick. When its current was first turned on, a crashing clatter shook the bevatron building as iron objects on the floor rearranged themselves violently to fit the invisible pattern of its magnetic field...
...Katherine Dunham troupe to try for the big money, is neatly made, has a cobra-cold allure, sings well in both French and English, and dances with the unerring grace of a cat. More to the point, she makes the spectator feel like an iron filing when the magnet passes...
Embarrassment of Riches. Biggie Munn himself, some ten pounds heavier than when he was a burly (5 ft. 9 in., 220 Ibs.) All-America guard at Minnesota two decades ago, is the magnet that draws much of the talent. Like most coaches, he drives his players hard in two-hour daily drills, but when drills are over, he does what few coaches ever have time for: he sits down to have dinner at the players' training table, gets to know his men off the field as well as on. Above all, Munn harps on the importance of loyalty...
Through your article I learned that friends still live whom I have long thought dead . . . I shall be most grateful if you can tell me if the Magnet is still being published...
Even here in South Africa Frank Richards was a most popular name. The exploits of Harry Wharton & Co. in the Magnet were followed with intense eagerness by schoolboys between the years 1910-20. Our lives were actually influenced by the characters. In my own family, as youngsters, we didn't play "cowboys and Indians" ... we assumed the characters of the Magnet and Gem . . . We developed a sense of decency and honor which has lasted all our lives. Even now . . . none of us smoke ... I only wish our own children had been influenced by such good, healthy reading instead...