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Kenneth Hay Kingdon and H. C. Pollock of the General Electric laboratories had isolated small amounts of U-235. But costly, slow and tedious, the method of isolation employs the mass spectrometer the uranium ore is vaporized in a tiny electric furnace, then electrified, and the isotopes are separated and sorted by weight in a magnetic field. The rate of isolating U-235 is one ten-billionth of a pound per hour. It is generally agreed that at least a pound would be needed for practical power experiments. By this method a pound would take about 11,000 centuries...
Billed as "nonsectarian and non-partisan," the 13 lectures were "expected to result in a rediscovery of spiritual and patriotic values in this community." Playwright Channing Pollock labeled his address: "I Am a Reactionary." The others did not need to. Among them: George Ephraim Sokolsky; Mark Sullivan; Editor Henry Justin Allen of the Topeka State Journal; handsome Dr. Ruth Alexander, who has been touring the U. S. publicizing religion as a prop for capitalism (TIME, Dec. 19); and two Methodists, onetime Governor Arthur Hyde of Missouri and Chicago Banker Wilbur Helm, who four years ago formed the Conference of Methodist...
...great value of TIME as a disseminator of really important news, reported clearly and precisely has again been demonstrated. . . . C. A. POLLOCK...
...LOUIS POLLOCK...
...football at Mt. Union College in 1893, became a reporter for the Canton Repository. When William McKinley, a friend of his Army officer father, campaigned for the Presidency, Reporter March joined him, followed him to Washington, landed a job there as $7-a-week assistant to Dramatic Critic Channing Pollock. When McKinley advised him that newspaper reporters were lounge lizards, he studied medicine, went back to Canton to practice. Meanwhile he played or watched hundreds of football games when the best professionals were such characters as Christy Mathewson, Fielding Yost, Walter Okeson, Knute Rockne and Yale's legendary Walter...