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...astrophysics. Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble of Mt. Wilson Observatory has promised to let him look through the Mt. Wilson telescope. One evening all the California scientists had a banquet, invited Dr. Einstein as guest of honor. He spoke to them in German, complimented the works of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson who is remeasuring light, Mt. Wilson's Dr. Hubble who measured the red shift in starlight, and Professor Tolman who believes with Sir James Hopwood Jeans that the universe is "exploding" (TIME, Jan. 5). After having been lectured to, Dr. Einstein gave a lecture himself last week. Before...
Birthdays. Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, 78, first U. S. physicist to win the Nobel Prize, longtime head of University of Chicago's physics department; Henrietta Szold, 70, founder of Hadassah (women's Zionist organization); Princess Hermine, 43, wife of ex-Kaiser Wilhelm von Hohenzollern; King Alexander I of Jugoslavia...
...from their small apartment home in Haberlandstrasse, Berlin. Frau Einstein had a busy time preparing for their long journey. So soon as Dr. Einstein announced last month that he would make his second trip to the U. S. to visit his scientific friends Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, University of Chicago physicist, and Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. (TIME, Nov. 24), scores of U. S. private citizens, public officials, clubs, and universities sent invitations for teas, dinners, receptions. Frau Einstein, who is her husband's keeper, had to reply with a refusal...
...meetings of Pasadena women's clubs, is active in the Pasadena Drama League, Community Playhouse Association. But of first importance to her is her husband's comfort and privacy which she, too, guards vigilantly. Also at Pasadena will be Frau Einstein's friend Edna Stanton Michelson, wife of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, who is carrying on new light measurements. Mrs. Michelson is a daughter of the late Edgar Stanton, onetime U. S. Consul at St. Petersburg. She has been married to her scientist for 31 years, has three children, four grandchildren. She speaks and reads German...
...learned from the Democracy two tricks: 1) having the national party organization function continuously, instead of just before a campaign; 2) employing a smart, persistent publicity man. To staunch the flow of crack anti-Republican propaganda which emanated from the office of Democratic Director of Publicity Charles Michelson, the Republicans hired James West from the Washington bureau of the Associated Press. Last week steps were taken to make the Republican campaign headquarters permanent and potent, like the organization built and operated by Jouett Shouse, Executive Chairman of the Democratic National Committee (TIME...