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What makes blue water blue? Every schoolboy knows that, on a clear day, the sea looks blue when looked at from a low angle: it is merely the blue sky reflected in the water's surface. But Dr. Francis A. Jenkins of the University of California and Dr. Ira S. Bowen, now director of Mt. Wilson Observatory, announced this week that they knew why deep water is also blue when looked at from above at close range...
...incident was typical. In the critical week before U.S. voters decided the new complexion of Congress, the President was all smiles, all affability, delighted as a schoolboy with such antic repartee. He seemed to be enjoying his self-imposed vow of silence on political matters...
Indifference poses a far greater problem than mere inefficiency. If the Student Council is to be the voice of Harvard opinion, it must be just that. If not, it is merely a market for schoolboy politicians, with no purpose but the dubious glorification of their individual and collective egos...
Notre Dame's football coach-every schoolboy knows his name is Frank Leahy-began the 1946 season by overcoming a serious handicap: a single pair of eyes, operating at ground level, could not possibly watch the whole vast Notre Dame processing plant. So Leahy (rhymes with "may he") built a tower, 30 feet high and bristling with loudspeakers, smack in the middle of Notre Dame's three-gridiron practice field. From the tower he looks down on an operation that is as carefully calculated, as extremely complicated as the Studebaker assembly line in nearby South Bend...
Frank J. Miklos, quarterback, played one season at Fordham before he received an Army commission and was a flashy schoolboy back at Donora...