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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where Was I? (Ray Noble: Columbia). Sweet record of the month. Sounds like one of the good old tunes Britisher Noble played in his good old British days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: February Records | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...Carl David Anderson of Caltech announced the existence of an intermediate particle, apparently created about ten miles up in the air by cosmic ray impacts, and its existence was also vouched for by Street & Stevenson of Harvard. The particle was variously called the "X-particle," the "heavy electron"' (a misnomer, since it was not an electron), the "barytron" (also a misnomer, because it means "heavy particle," whereas the particle is lighter than a proton). A name meaning "intermediate particle" was clearly in order, and so practically all U. S. physicists now call it the "mesotron" or "meson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Powerful Brain | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...pair of sloe-black, Oriental eyes and an intermittent lisp that made her afraid audiences would laugh at the wrong times if she played dramatic roles. So she turned to comedy, made her biggest hit as Peg in Peg o' My Heart. She also married Musical Comedy Actor Ray Raymond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Reel | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...love with your wife - and I am." A few months later Kelly came back. In the presence of Actress Mackaye and her daughter, Valerie Raymond, 4, Kelly threatened Raymond. But the singer, who said he had been drinking for two weeks, did not want to fight. Kelly slugged him. Ray Raymond died of the injuries he received. Contributing cause: acute alcoholism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood Reel | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Suffering mainly from a lack of confidence. Ray Stone lost a fairly close decision to his Soldier Boy opponent. Harvard had won the meet before Duncan Longcope's final match. so he was not in the best psychological position to win a close fight. After a hard match against a stronger and heavier rival, he dropped a decision to the Cadets...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Strong Grapplers Beat Cadets To Rank as Top Eastern Team | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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