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Early last year news came from Germany, Denmark and France that hit physicists like a punch in the solar plexus. The massive atom of uranium, heaviest of the 92 elements, had been cracked by neutrons (electrically neutral subatomic particles), yielding some 200,000,000 electron-volts of energy per cracked atom (TIME, Feb. 6, 1939). These uranium explosions or "fissions" were most effectively touched off by slow moving neutrons of only one-thirtieth of one electron-volt energy, so that the energy profit was 6,000,000,000 to 1. Prospect of using atomic power-the old dream of sending...
Thus with ceremony usually saved for a new building, Minneapolis said good-by to an old: the famed 400-room West Hotel where Jim Hill had eaten, slept and drunk while building his northwest railroad empire; where Ruby Bob Fitzsimmons once demonstrated his solar plexus punch with a bellboy for a sparring partner; where popeyed crowds had gathered, in the reaches of the spreading, pretentious lobby, to watch Booth, Mansfield, Bernhardt, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and many another pass...
...even a slight disarrangement of tissues, a two-degree drop in temperature, and the loss of a cupful of blood may be enough to bog down heart and brain and produce a coma, prelude to death. Shock may also follow severe burns, wounds, lacerations, even blows in the solar plexus. Usually shock does not occur until several hours after injury. Standard treatment: warmth, blood transfusion, oxygen, water injections. But these measures often fail...
Comic Fred Allen's self-written weekly scripts are regularly combed for libel, slander, offense to tender sensibilities. But now & then, despite radio's stout guarding, Allen manages to sink a punch line into some touchy solar plexus. He has never been sued for anything he has said on the air, but this season he has set a-storming: 1) Philadelphia's hotelkeepers, because of a crack about the size and appointments of Philadelphia hotel rooms; 2) the drug-store trade, over a yarn about a would-be pharmacist who "flunked in chow mein...
Ghosts present were the members of Mabel Dodge Luhan's famed pre-war salon at 23 Fifth Avenue, vividly recalled in Vol. Ill of Mabel's autobiographical succes de scandale, Intimate Memories ("it makes me sick in my solar plexus," said D. H. Lawrence). Dead & gone are many a writer, artist, anarchist, psychiatrist, birth-controller who enlivened that salon -Big Bill Haywood, John Reed, Isadora Duncan, Arthur Brisbane, Lincoln Steffens, Amy Lowell, Edwin Arlington Robinson. On the site where Mabel once "proceeded to startle, delight and dumfound the town," where she "caught men between the eyes, held them...