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...very interested to read your Aug. 24 article on the Magnet and illustrations from it. I used to follow the adventures of Billy Bunter, as well as all the others you mention, for many years before I came to Canada in 1925 . . . but during the war I lost touch with such mundane matters. Although I am older than the oldest number of the Magnet, your story has brought back a desire to see for myself just what Bunter & Co. are doing...
Charles Hamilton first turned into Frank Richards in 1908, when at 37 he began publishing his Bunter stories in a halfpenny weekly called the Magnet. To his own astonishment, Bunter soon became a household word, and the entire British Empire seemed to take Greyfriars to its heart. It was a quiet, stiff-upper-lip sort of world where sex and politics were never mentioned, and no gentleman ever thought of tattling on another. Missionaries read about it in Malaya; traders took the Magnet along to Australia; soldiers snatched it up in their canteens in India. Eventually the time came when...
...Stanford scientists made their find with the most powerful "microscope" known to science. Its "eyepiece" is a 2½-ton magnet, its light source a giant accelerator that spews electrons in a thin stream. Fired at sheets of metal foil, the electrons whip through the metallic nuclei where they are shoved and twisted by faint electrical fields. In the huge eyepiece, the scattered electrons are counted, their new paths traced. All their measurements told the Hofstadter team that though the center of the nucleus is 130 trillion times denser than water, its edge thins down to cottony fluff...
...nuclear theories must be developed to explain Hofstadter's discoveries. But he looks forward to probing still deeper into the atom. He is building a 25-ton magnet for a new eyepiece and plans a still bigger one. He and his assistants are experimenting with the university's new accelerator that should soon be splitting electrons at the highest speed ever reached: 186,000 miles a second, only a fraction slower than the speed of light. With his new microscope, which will put the atomic nucleus in even sharper focus, Hofstadter may well probe to the innermost limits...
Kinsey is a friendly man with a passionate interest in people. Says Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner (whom he interviewed as part of his "female sample"): "He has the skill of a great actor in drawing you into what he is doing. He attracts you like a magnet. You forget all your fears and have complete confidence in him." But lately, as the weight of work has increased, Kinsey has become almost a recluse. He sees less and less of his old faculty friends, though most of them still like him. He can be impatient and cutting. His attacks on scientists...