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...undertaker's" advertisement portraying the "beautiful body" of a nude girl is carnal and shameless. It is manifestly repugnant to the general public and offensive to the funeral service industry. . . . J. WILFRED CORR Executive Secretary California Funeral Directors Association Pasadena, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Palomar Mountain became a scientific necessity 18 years ago. With the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson, near Pasadena, Astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble had made one of the most flabbergasting discoveries science has ever made. The whole visible universe, Hubble's data told him, is apparently exploding. The matter in space appears to be flying apart far faster than the white-hot gases of detonating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...glass disc arrived at the Pasadena optical shop of the California Institute of Technology to be ground and polished. The 20-ton blank was placed face up on a turntable. As it revolved slowly, a 48-inch disc set with blocks of abrasive was stroked mechanically back & forth from its edge across its center. The whole process was maddeningly tedious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Astronomer-Ballistician Hubble came back from his second war with the Medal of Merit, and settled down. With his wife, the former Grace Burke, he lives in a charming mission-style house in San Marino, near Pasadena, on the edge of a steep geological fault which he thinks may be incubating an earthquake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Curved space is apparently understandable to Professor Howard P. Robertson, leading cosmologist who has come to Pasadena to look over Hubble's shoulder. Suppose, says Robertson, you draw two circles on a sheet of paper, one with a radius of one inch, the other with a radius of two inches. By high-school plane geometry, the second circle will have four times the area of the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Look Upward | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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