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...private investigator on a holiday with a drunken sidekick, Roscoe Karns, Overman finds himself following a woman in the holiday spirit, until they stumble across the scene of a crime. For the easy to look at lady is an ex-chanteuse and now wife of Keats College's brilliant mathematician, Professor Barry. Barry has become a corpse, whereat it is brought to light that many of the Faculty members owe gambling debts to him, while he himself was trying to muscle in on the metropolitan numbers racket. The chief oft the numbers racket is a boy fiend of the professor...
...TIME, Jan. 25 et ante). This organization, which tests the fitness of some 12,000 youngsters every year to enter high-ranking U. S. universities and colleges, is so crusty that its brownstone Manhattan headquarters does not list a telephone. Last week the Board's new Secretary. Columbia Mathematician George Walker Mullins, who succeeded 71-year-old Thomas Scott Fiske three months ago (TIME, Nov. 2), renovated his hoary service in two ways...
Last week Washington's alert Science Service, browsing among the patent files, discovered that in his long search for a Unified Field Theory the great mathematician had not forgotten the uses of photoelectric cells. Patent No. 2,058,562, it appeared, had been issued to Dr. Albert Einstein and Gustav Bucky. Manhattan X-ray researcher, for an automatic device to prevent unskilled photographers from under-or over-exposing their plates.* A photoelectric cell attached to the camera measures the quantity of illumination available, adjusts a screen of varying transparency so that the proper amount of light is admitted...
Charges made in the "New Masses" magazine that Professor Einstein had failed to attend the Tercentenary conference because of the participation of Nazis was denied by Jerome Greene yesterday. He declared that Einstein had failed to come because of sickness in the family, as the mathematician said...
...Omitted this year)" or "Mastery of Men 47-B. Bring your Marx." It can only be done by creating an atmosphere in which everything that man has ever thought upon any given subject, is shown in its growth and evolution and is discussed without prejudice or emotion as the mathematician will discuss his formulas or the chemist will explain his mysterious concoctions...