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...saddened by our war losses and you say: "World War II is not yet a crusade" [TIME,' June 26]. As the late Prof. Boas pointed out, it is almost impossible to tell what masses of people have thought in the past or are thinking in the present. For each one of us, it is mostly a projection of individual thought. So, for the American soldier this war may not be a crusade, but something better on a lower emotional plane: a fight for fair play...
Enclosed is Prof. DeMill's "Sweet Maiden of Quoddy," which gives you some idea of how many rivers we have to fish in this Province and what funny names they have...
Incidentally, Lt. Towne, you looked great out there at second base. As usual, that eminent financier and V-loan specialist "Weeds" Nillson played a terrific game at short. On one play, a slashing line drive was hit over second base. Prof. Nillson dove for the ball. He speared it with his gloved hand. Then he fainted. Speed-merchant Bursk could not seem to get together with himself. Chuck Livesey played a terrific game at the bat and in the field. (So what? Sources is our toughest course...
When an electric current flows through a wire it stirs up a magnetic field going around the wire like the brass rings on a Burmese hillwoman's neck. Prof. Ehrenhaft says that, in turn, there is an electric current going around any magnetic field. He places the poles of a magnet one above the other in water-whereupon small, electrically-charged bubbles go round and round the magnetic field between the poles...
...physicists were enthralled. They heard Prof. Ehrenhaft repeat what they all knew: "Electricity and magnetism represent an indivisible pair." But the phrase had a new meaning-for the first time, magnetism seemed a potentially hard-working partner...