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Most of the processing work is done by remote control. The quieter isotopes can be watched through glass or plastic. The stronger ones must be watched with mirrors, as Perseus watched Medusa reflected in his polished shield. The gamma rays they send out pass right through a mirror and do not strike the worker who is watching from one side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot Factory | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

Schumann: Quintet in E Flat (Rudolf Serkin, pianist, with the Busch String Quartet; Columbia, 2 sides, LP). Quieter, more flowing music than the Fantasia. In this performance the first movement has some of the innocuous quality of Muzak, but it finishes strongly. Recording: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Dec. 26, 1949 | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...Aldrich, a callow, voice-cracking adolescent. Since Stone (a master sergeant in World War II) is now fat, 32 and balding, he says: "On TV it will have to be a different show, with a new Henry. Our radio technique of abrupt sequences and staccato action will change to quieter, more restrained comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: There'll Be Some Changes | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

They approached it amidst no new sensational disclosures. Instead, the trial in a Manhattan Federal Court took a quieter, tenser turn. FBI agents, in endless search, had followed countless trails from New York to Washington to Baltimore. They had dug through old files, turning up bills of sale, bank accounts, letters-even the fragmentary, casual conversations of years past, now of utmost importance. With these minutiae, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Murphy fought his duel with Alger and Priscilla Hiss and Defense Attorney Lloyd Stryker. With these minutiae, Murphy sought to convict Alger Hiss, once-bright star of the State Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: The Stumps | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...elder brother, Satish Chandra Bose, a quieter and steadier Congressman, was South Calcutta's delegate to the West Bengal Assembly until his death last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Cloud | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

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