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...world of the physicist can be an eerie one???and that is part of its fascination. In the field of high-energy physics, few are involved in more eerie or more fascinating work than Berkeley's Italian-born Emilio Segrè, who discovered the antiproton, which turns into a flash of energy when it hits an ordinary proton...
Sirs: . . . Harry Hopkins, U. S. Relief Administrator, by all means. For 19 months, he has had the most difficult, thankless, and yet the most important job in the U. S.?barring no one???that of feeding about 20 million U. S. men, women, children?and he's done a damn swell...
...plea was a simple homespun one??? the Budget must be balanced: no matter what kind of taxes had to be imposed. As for the Sales Tax, he was opposed to that but he would levy it "or any other kind" to balance the Budget. His face grew red and his voice sharp as he told his colleagues that it was their ''paramount duty" to supply revenue to maintain the Government's financial integrity. If the Budget was not balanced, he warned, foreigners would withdraw their deposits from the U. S., the dollar would be driven off the gold standard, every...
...being ranked second last week, he could console himself by remembering that most bridge players still consider him, year in, year out, the best player in the U. S.; that he has won more contract championships than anyone else; that last fortnight David Burnstine dedicated a book (One-Over-One???Walter J. Black, Inc., $1), in which he explained the Four Horsemen's bidding systems, to "P. Hal Sims . . . Master card player of the world. . . ." To Sidney Lenz and Harold S. ("Mike") Vanderbilt, who played in a few tournaments last year, and a dozen others, Shepard Barclay last week gave...
...Flying Fool." A loop, another loop, a snap roll, a series of slow rolls, an Immelman. . . . Crowds at the Miami All-American Air Races had seen such stunts done before, but never by a plane like this one???a tiny Curtiss Teal amphibian. Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder with Forest O'Brine of the world's refueling duration record, was again qualifying for a nickname he earned two years ago? "Flying Fool.". . . Again he pulled the little ship over in a loop, began to straighten out after the dive?when a wing tore off, then another . . . Pilot Jackson died...