Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This protoplasmic streaming interests Dr. Seifriz immensely. The movements of Physarum show a definite pulse, not unlike that of a beating heart. With inadequate motion-picture equipment at Philadelphia, he was not able to see this living rhythm until he went to studv at the Pasteur Institute in France where films had been made and slowed down 100 times. The Physarum pulse was seen to have a period of about 45 seconds. Dr. Seifriz rejects the older theories attributing protoplasmic movement to surface tension, electric potentials, etc. "I ask the reader," he wrote recently in Science, "merely to admit that...
...science. Preoccupation of the American Physical Society, founded in 1899, is straightforward physics, let the philosophical chips fall where they may; but physics may include anything from the electrical conductivity of a safety pin to the fringes of the universe. Last week the American Philosophical Society assembled in Philadelphia and the American Physical Society convened in Chicago. Noteworthy topics discussed at the two meetings...
...System's U. S. and Canadian listeners gave him first place in popularity (Beethoven was second) among all composers, past and present. This autumn Manhattan's Radio City MusicHall Conductor Erno Rapee unhesitatingly undertook to broadcast Sibelius' entire set of seven symphonies. The Boston Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra play them far oftener than the once-popular symphonies of Tchaikovsky and Cesar Franck. The great bald Finn has come into...
...program of the Hofmann Jubilee was not one to excite musicians, it was nonetheless admirably suited to the occasion. Pianist Hofmann is the businesslike, hard-working dean and director of Philadelphia's 14-year-old Curtis Institute of Music. For the Jubilee, Mrs. Mary Louise Curtis Bok, its benefactor and his good friend, paid the expenses of an orchestra of Curtis students, faculty members and 29 Curtis graduates now playing in major U. S. orchestras, and with the Institute's Fritz Reiner on the podium they played the pompous Academic Festival Overture of Brahms. The date...
When most of his 200 reindeer shed their antlers aboard ship en route to Seattle, he equipped them, with papier-mâché antlers. Later, as head of the Philadelphia agency of Union Central Life Insurance Co., he raised his office in two years' time (1935-36) from 24th to second place among the company's 80 agencies...