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Last January the Curie-Joliots of Paris pegged alpha particles (helium nuclei) into boron nuclei and got nitrogen. Similarly magnesium became silicon; alumi-num-phosphorus...
...week. When the Board of Registry closed its books, 2,322,382 citizens had entered their names-a turnout 6% greater than the city's vote in last autumn's bloodless national revolution. The number of candidates to be voted on Nov. 7 was proportionate to the num-ber of incipient voters. In the field were 28 parties. There were nine candidates for Comptroller, ten for Mayor, so many that it looked as though voting machines could not be used. But eliminating crackpots and perennial political protestants, the race for the nation's third most potent elective...
...Ontario's Legislature moved last week to snatch a rich reward from the fruitful mothers of Toronto. On Oct. 31, 1926 wealthy Charles Millar of Toronto died without heirs and left his $500,000 estate in trust for that Ontario mother who should bear the greatest num-ber of children between the date of his death and midnight...
Similar collections have been made once before, as in 1915, as a war relief measure. At that time the slogan was "Give at least a dollar!" This num is smaller than the admissions to the planned charity games, yet large enough to form a fund that may be of use. Although the average undergraduate does not ordinarily feel obliged to contribute anything to charity, here is an opportunity in which he may help the current situation. Any method of relief, good though it may be, is useless unless the gesture is generous enough to fulfill the spirit in which...
...Easterner whose father has banished him to the badlands. But biggest asset to the show is the person of Ethel Merman who, as a honkeytonk singer, strolls out on the stage at the Act I finale and electrifies spectators by shouting "Sam & Delilah," an extremely low-down Gershwinian num - ber with a deep blue base. It is also Miss Merman who, in another piece, croons...