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Edward H. Bennett, Jr. '37 was elected crew captain at Red Top last spring, succeeding Ray Clark, leader and driving spirit in the 1936 underdog eight which took Yale by 6 lengths last June. Cox Eddie Bennett stands 5 ft. 7 in., weighs 125 pounds, is 20 years old, and has rapped out the beat for three crews against the Blue in three years...
Among the Nobel Prize winners speaking in the Biological and Physical Science symposia were Arthur Holly Compton in physics and Karl Landsteiner and Frederick Gowland Hopkins in medicine. Professor Compton, who is 44 years old, is one of the world's leading authorities on cosmic rays. After being a National Research Fellow in 1919, he became an instructor at Minnesota, research physicist with the Westinghouse Electric Co., and head of the Department of Physics at Washington University. Since 1923 he has been Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, and has traveled extensively around the world in pursuit...
Pigeons killed on the fly by a mysterious ray, a genuine and ingenious new welding process, big round sums of money and a short, myopic Spaniard were the ingredients of a story that drew chuckles last week from metallurgists, welding engineers and connoisseurs of the curious in the annals of invention...
...years ago President Albert Burns of the Inventors' Congress declared that he had seen pigeons, rabbits, dogs and cats killed at a distance by a "death ray" which dissolved red blood corpuscles. The inventor, said President Burns, was Dr. Antonio Longoria (TIME, July...
...Manhattan last week Inventor Longoria turned up with a photostatic copy of a check for $800,000, allowed newshawks to get the impression that his welding was done by means of an "invisible ray," that the total profit from his invention would run to $6,000,000. He admitted that the process had been developed for use on fine wires, but felt it could be extended to handle much heavier work and exhibited pieces of welded metal ⅜ in. thick...