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Universe. Belgium's Abbe Georges Lemaitre, astronomer and relativist, once thought of the universe as cosmic shrapnel -fragments still receding violently from the explosion billions of years ago of a single primordial atom. In Pasadena last winter he explained to a respectful listener named Albert Einstein how this picture...
"Ed's STATUES ARE PUNK . . ." I'm acquainted with Gert and with Ein And a great many others named Stein But this sculptor called Ed, Is he living or dead? Or did somebody garble a line? GODFREY HOPKINS New York City A child of error and perversity, Ed...
Phantasmagoria. The fantastic pyrotechnics of colored ink and nightmare layouts with which Hearst, ever demure in appearance, staggered public attention in the next few years are still faintly reflected today in his American Weekly (circulation: 6,000,000). Snorting brontosauri with swarms of pterodactyls perched on their backs go gallivanting...
The clamor of the House dining hall, where he is eating with a friend whose conversation satisfies, pounds in his cars. As the decaying pork is placed on the table, the Vagabond leaves, looking straight before him, intently and desperate. He proceeds, with irregular stops, to a class. His legs...
"I think," said he at Pasadena last week, "all the matter in the Universe was once condensed into a single primordial atom and that this atom exploded with such force that we still see some of the smoke going away. And ever since that original disintegration, matter has been breaking...