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From Bercenay, France, Jean Baudin, who says that he has read every issue of TIME cover to cover for the last three years, sent in the following confession: "I have never been a Communist, but must confess that I was certainly far redder years ago than I am now. TIME'S influence, I think, or rather its undistorted articles one reads every week and remembers easily, brought forth this change...
...before he got around to blasting the offending Forest, some of Sir Alfred's less conservative colleagues stopped squirming and started shouting. From the back of the room came cries of "That's beautiful!" and "Lovely work!" Munnings turned a shade redder, sputtered: "I hear other members interrupting me ... I am president and I have the right to speak. I shall not be here next year, thank...
...Redder-faced still was FORTUNE'S Pollster Elmo Roper. He had predicted a Dewey landslide comparable only to Roosevelt's victory over Landon. He was so sure of it that, on Sept. 9, he said he would report no more figures unless there was a significant change. On election eve, he had found none, said: "I stand by my prediction. Mr. Dewey is in." But Roper, who had predicted the three previous presidential elections within .2 to 1.2% of accuracy, had no alibis. Said he: "How did we go wrong? I frankly do not know...
Universe in Flight. Astronomers have a speedometer to clock the motions of skittish heavenly bodies. They take spectrographs: photographs of the body's light spread out by a prism into a band of colors. If the band is "shifted toward the red" (i.e., if it is redder than normal), it shows that the body is moving away from the earth...
Tired Light. Other critics question the "red shift" as a measure of velocity. The usual explanation of the reddening effect is that the luminous body's motion away from the observer "pulls out" the light waves, making them longer (redder) than normal. But since red light contains less energy per unit (photon) than violet light, Bubble's critics suggest that light may lose some of its energy in traversing space, thus turning redder. It may start out from a distant nebula as young, vigorous violet and arrive at the earth after millions of weary years as old, tired...