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...controllers. All carry beepers and many have walkie-talkies and cellular phones to track the "Black Hurricane," as some call him. "He plays the fox and rabbit with people," says an employee. "If he smells a rabbit, he goes for it." Not that Maxwell spares himself. The tenets of Maxwellian management call for living over the shop, working 24 hours a day, hiring and firing often, trusting only family members and centralizing all power...
Crushes & Feuds. Back in the U.S. during the Depression, Elsa tried her hand at some unsuccessful movie shorts in Hollywood and was in danger of sinking into an un-Maxwellian obscurity, when the postwar wave of international prosperity brought her back with a new cast of characters. Now she was a newspaper columnist, playing for an audience of millions her roles of social arbiter, super name-dropper, gossip and buffoon...
...caviar. For the traditional Fourth of July celebration, able U.S. Ambassador Walter C. Dowling, a careerman, could afford only $287-enough to give 360 visitors a pass at trays of simple canapes and a sip of cheap German sparkling wine. In Leopoldville, where the Belgians established an Elsa Maxwellian standard of party-giving that the Congolese now regard as the norm for diplomatic life, U.S. Ambassador Clare Timberlake must keep up with the Joneses on a budget of $2,000. "I haven't asked for an increase and don't intend to," he says...
...society. In a complicated little story about life & love in a Manhattan residence hotel for women, untypical Miss Maxwell plays herself (explaining her presence in the unswank Sherrington as her substitute for a vacation in the mountains), popping out brisk remarks, decanting an occasional drop of the Maxwellian philosophy, which undoubtedly seems headier after 2 a. m. On cocktail parties: "They're only given for people not good enough to be asked to dinner. And because of that they stay to dinner-and supper-and breakfast." On life, as passed on by her father: "Never ... be afraid, especially never...
...different point of departure led to the solution presented last week. Maxwellian theory took no notice of the size of energy-radiating particles, handled them as mathematical points. By 1925 subatomic theory had reached such a stage that electrons (which Maxwell did not know existed) had to be considered as waves as well as corpuscles-hence as abstractions. Reduced to its simplest terms, Professor Bern's latest work elevates them to the status of physical entities. By introducing a symbol to represent the electron's radius, by investing the electron with the four Einsteinian dimensions of time & space...