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...into the red. (Estimated loss: $160,000.) Circulation dropped from 170,792 to around 160,000. Colonel Visniskki, called in to see what could be economized, handed President George Kearney a 672-page report on Christmas Eve. President Kearney wrapped it in tissue paper, tied it with gaily colored ribbon, took it out to Gary Bok's home in the country...
...each wave is tiny and each atom sends out a wave only once in 1,000 to 100,000,000 years. But there are so many billions of atoms in a small pinch of substance that Dr. Rabi gets a continuous program on his detector, which is a ribbon of incandescent tungsten in an oscillating electromagnetic field. He expects to use atomic radio to learn more about the nuclear structure and energy mechanism of atoms. The physicists admired his discovery and Dr. Rabi got a $1,000 prize for the A. A. A. S. convention's best paper...
...This week their patented answer went on sale at Manhattan's swank Mark Cross Co. (leather goods). It was a glove which looked like a hand's pattern jig-sawed out of a board. It is made by sewing an identical back and palm to a leather ribbon edge. Loose and easy on the open hand, it bunches a bit when the fist is closed...
Leading contenders for the individual blue ribbon in today's race are Bill Watson of Yale, Dave Little of Princeton, Hal Wonson of Dartmouth, and Cornell's Ranney
...presentation of a foreign Ambassador to the President of the U. S. is usually heavy business, ribboned with red-tape, bound by strictest protocol. But one day last week ribbon and tape went out the White House window when a big black limousine, tagged DPL-I, swung around the little pavement-circle before the Executive wing. Out stepped six-foot, rosy-cheeked Philip Henry Kerr (pronounced Carr), Marquess of Lothian, Lord Newbattle, Earl of Lothian, Baron Jedburgh, Earl of Ancrum, Baron Kerr of Nisbet, Baron Long-Newton and Dolphingston, Viscount of Brien, Baron Kerr of Newbattle and Baron Ker. This...