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Ernest Orlando Lawrence, 56, University of California's Radiation Laboratory director, invented the atom-smashing cyclotron-which has been called "as useful in research as the microscope." Born in Canton, S.D., where his father was a superintendent of schools, Lawrence worked his way through local Midwestern colleges selling aluminum ware from door to door, and successfully so, despite the fact that the cakes he baked, as part of his presentation, usually caved flat as a platter. A Ph.D. (Yale, 1925), he spent his early career studying the phenomenon of ionization, began working on the cyclotron as early...
...fight for the winner's prize will probably be confined to the midwestern schools, which have dominated this meet in recent years. Michigan State is the defending champion. Best hope for a high finish among the Ivy League teams is Cornell, winner of the Heptagonals, ten days...
...game Christmas trip through the midwestern states will highlight a regular season schedule of twenty-eight games. However the toughest part of the schedule may be the first four games of the season against B.U., B.C., Clarkson and St. Lawrence. The opening game with B.U. will be played Dec. 7 at the Boston Arena...
...four-man team from the Harvard Debate Council leaves today for the University of Omaha Invitation Tournament and will remain for a week. As the only Eastern representative in the Midwestern contest, Harvard's "guest team" will receive free registration and lodging...
...present Government-held surpluses: $7.3 billion) should be permitted by law and "such carryover [should] be removed from consideration when establishing prices in the marketplace." Its economic meaning: the farmer should get top subsidies even while commanding top market prices. Its political meaning: whatever the cost to the taxpayer, Midwestern Democrats plan to leave no political row unplowed in their work toward a bumper vote crop...