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...this week's Science magazine Dr. D. ter Haar of Purdue University sums up the more recent theories. He rules out all theories based on a collision, or near-collision, between the sun and another star. A string of planets drawn out of the sun in this way could not have so large a part of the system's angular momentum. The recent theory of Harvard's Dr. Fred L. Whipple (that the sun and the planets were formed at the same time out of a cloud of mixed gas and smoke particles) is hardly better, says...
What becomes of the winners of radio contests? Are their lives permanently changed? Last week TIME looked up several of the recent big winners...
...Women, by Norman Lockridge (author of Bachelors' Quarters and editor of The Golden Treasury of the World's Wit and Wisdom). Says a dust-jacket blurb: "We did not plan to publish the contents of this book for some time to come . . . [but] excitement caused by the recent appearance of the Kinsey Report has suddenly brought most of these doubtful factors into a maturity of public interest. . ." Sample spicy headings in Lockridge's work: "What a Man Expects of a Mistress," "Good Women Not as Skillful as Prostitutes," "The Perfect Wedding Night," "A Frenchman's Experience...
Whatever power the Conservative League may once have had has passed form its hands to the new and active Harvard Young Republican Club. This club, a branch of the National Young Republicans, is the most recent and most powerful conservative outlet, and was chronologically preceded by both the Free Enterprise Society, a modest study group, and the Republican Open Forum, also primarily a discussion and debating society...
...organization is such as to discourage them from joining and keep them in the background when they come in. AVC is a supporter of action through the U.N., a strong Marhall Plan supporter, and domestically, a backer of such measures as the Taft-Eilender-Wagner housing program and the recent subsistence pay raise for vets. On the negative side, they have opposed a Federal bonus and the Taft-Hartley labor bill...