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That exception is the fact that Professor Albert Abraham Michelson of the University of Chicago has very accurately calculated the speed of light. It travels 186,000 miles a second. That figure, Professor Michelson said at Washington last week, was not more than one mile from exactness. And now scientists knowing that, he proudly repeated, can at any time they please remake the Paris standard metre...
Professor Michelson's presence at Washington last week was a joy to him. The Optical Society of America was meeting there, in the auditorium of the Bureau of Standards. Several hundred physicists who have been searching out light's properties and effects hailed him as one of their greatest. He had measured light data upon which Albert Einstein was able to base his relativity theory...
Accompanying the Busch outburst was a Busch declaration of support for Nominee Smith. Democrats rejoiced. "As go the Germans," wrote Correspondent Charles Michelson to the New York World, "so goes St. Louis and as goes St. Louis, so goes the State." Example: When Harry Bartow Howes, Missouri's present junior U. S. Senator, was running for office in 1926, an opponent belittled his act, at the beginning of the War, of escorting the late Mrs. Lily Busch out of Germany. The German vote arose, swept Howes to office...
...silly bulletin if only because the news columns of the World contain the writings of able Charles Michelson, an oldtimer, whom the World sends around the country to see the Nominees, visit the doubtful states and to write, whenever he can, stories that will boost the Brown Derby. His Republican equivalent is found in Carter Field, thoroughly partisan chief of the Herald Tribune's Washington bureau. The Field despatches deal with anything and everything political, except foreign policy, which until lately has usually been handled by Henry Cabot Lodge (grandson), another Near-Pundit, stalking about on errands...
Picked for the U. S. Olympic Marathon team-old Clarence DeMar, chesty Joie Ray, young William Agee, stout Jimmy Hennigan, skinny Harvey Frick, blond Albert Michelson...