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Deep in thought, Professor Albert Einstein, who planned to leave the U. S. this week, strolled across the twilit campus of California Institute of Technology at Pasadena. He did not at once understand why the tall palm trees had begun to dance crazily or why the students had begun running out of their dormitories. In Los Angeles, where crowds going home to dinner had complained of the sultry, oppressive atmosphere, electric lights blinked. A newspaperman, looking down on the city, saw the square 28-story tower of the City Hall sway ten feet like a huge tree. Masonry and cornices...
...Manhattan, Citizen Herbert Hoover made a hurried call to Pasadena, learned that his wife and Herbert Jr. were uninjured. From Washington President Roosevelt wired Governor Rolph: "If anything is needed wire me at once. Trust preliminary reports are exaggerated." The President ordered the fleet off San Pedro and San Diego to give...
California's bank holiday proclamation took the guests of Pasadena's smart Huntington Hotel by surprise. The hotel decided to issue scrip negotiable within its walls for tips, cigars, newspapers, cosmetics, haircuts. Among those who lined up at the cashier's window to get their scrip: onetime Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime Speaker of the House Frederick Huntington Gillett, Banker Henry G. Lapham of Boston, Edward Bausch (& Lomb), President William G, Stuber of Eastman Kodak Co., onetime President Charles Doran of Sperry Gyroscope Co., John Hays Hammond, Packer Edward A. Cudahy Jr., Princess Erik...
...light protons. Before the Royal Society last fortnight, Dr. P. M. S. Blackett, 35, tall, pale member of Lord Rutherford's platoon of physicists who work in Cambridge's Cavendish's Laboratory, produced 500 pictures of positive particles answering the same description. Dr. Anderson in Pasadena suggested the term "positron," with electron converted to "negatron" to emphasize the distinction...
...Charles Edward Jefferson, famed for lofty mind and simple heart. A great choir of 500 will sing the hymns of 25 years ago. "Blessed Be the Tie That Binds" will be sung for Founder Clifford Webster Barnes who, now 68 and ailing since last summer, is in Pasadena, Calif, with his 91-year-old mother, a granddaughter of Daniel Webster...