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Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, first man to isolate electrons, which generate x-rays, and then to count them one by one, was the chief speaker at the 37th annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society in Cleveland last week. Dr. Millikan, who has a strong urge for evangelism acquired from his preacher father, stretched his advertised topic "High Energy Radiations and Their Uses" to declaim that "a democracy like ours cannot survive and war can never be eliminated unless we can learn to solve our social problems by the rational method." Less original but also instructive were the addresses...
...John G. Trump, 28, an unobtrusive electrical engineer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr, Richard Dresser, 43, an equally unobtrusive Boston Roentgenologist, will soon have in operation in Boston's Huntington Memorial Hospital a room-high electrostatic machine which will produce x-rays of 1,000,000-volt power, penetrating enough to reach any cancer within the human body. The principle of the machine is that of the 10,000,000-volt electrostatic generator which Engineer Trump's M. I. T. teacher, Robert J. Van de Graaff, invented (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933 et ante). Fast moving paper...
...Reported was the successful making of x-ray moving pictures with a home camera and 16-mm. film. Drs. William Holmes Stewart, William Joseph Hoffman, and Francis Henshall Ghiselin developed the technique at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital. The heart of the problem was to get a sharp, clear x-ray image on a fluoroscopic screen. The sharpness of the image depended on 1) the brightness of fluorescent material in the screen and 2) the length of time a patient may be subjected to x-ray transillumination. The invention in England of a zinc sulphide preparation which gave...
Those at the theatre included: Mr. Bingham, Dick Harlow, Howle Odell, Ray Crowther, Skip Stahley, Wes Fesler, Jimmy Dunn and Henry Lamar of the coaching staff C. F. Getchell, general manager of the H.A.A.; Frank Ryan, publicity director; Walter H. Page, II '37, football manager, Robert T. Whitman '38, assistant football manager; Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and Donald B. Straus '38, Crimson football writers; and Frank Lunden, Norman Fradd, and Jim McRae of the H.A.A...
Alone in robe and slippers in a corner of his Attic sits the Vagabond. But for the single ray that falls from the shaded lamp over his left shoulder, to the book in the Vagabond's lap, the Attic is in darkness. Across the quadrangle a silly radio bleats out a strain of jazz. The Vagabond reads for a moment, then gets up and shuts the window toward the quadrangle. The radio's voice is still. The Vagabond smiles. He knows a trick or two that'll baffle modern science. He reads...