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...return to England was perfectly timed. Byron had written the early cantos of Childe Harold. Young ladies were dreaming of giaours, Manfreds, Mazeppas, with wild eyes, black mustaches, long cloaks, wicked pasts. In Lausanne one day Trelawny read Shelley's Queen Mab. He rushed to Pisa to meet the satanic author, was astonished at Shelley's "flushed, feminine and artless face," soon felt as romantic about Shelley as he had about De Ruyter...
Hungarian Zsolt de Harsanyi begins his story in 1587, when Galileo Galilei was 23 and threadbare, harassed by a termagant mother, a frayed father, spiteful fellow students at the University of Pisa. The well-known Leaning Tower experiment is handled by Harsanyi with considerable irony. When Galileo, then a young professor at Pisa, proved before a great crowd that objects of different weights (even though of identical shape and size) had exactly the same rate of fall, almost everyone was disappointed. "Is this all?" said the boys. But Galileo became a famous nuisance...
...Galileo stood on a balcony of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and demonstrated that things of different weight fall at the same rate, that whatever is dropped first lands first. A similar law governs naval races. Nations which start in front tend to stay there. So when Japan last week announced that within six years she planned to have a fleet "equal to that of the strongest naval power," no one took her very literally...
...Most sensational debut of the Metropolitan's third week was not Masini's, but that of a young (25), good-looking New York contralto, Rise (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens. Contralto Stevens, who studied at Manhattan's Juilliard Graduate School, had spent three years singing at Prague's New German Theatre and at the Vienna Staatsoper...
Born in Rome 37 years ago, Enrico Fermi was introduced to the atom at the University of Pisa, continued his acquaintance with it at Göttingen and Leyden, joined the University of Rome faculty in 1927. Short, wiry, dapper and cheerful, he has visited the U. S. several times, speaks heavily accented English, likes skiing, tennis. Some time ago Benito Mussolini, who is not insensitive to the prestige of Italian science, saw to it that Fermi got a fine new laboratory...