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Married. Dr. Herman Benjamin Baruch, 77, onetime U.S. ambassador to Portugal (1945-47) and The Netherlands (he resigned last month), goateed younger brother of Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch; and Anne Maria, Baroness Mackay, fortyish, Dutch socialite; he for the second time; in Wyandanch...
...speed of Giacobinid meteors is rather accurately known: 23 kilometers (14.3 miles) per second. Working theoretically, Whipple figured out what would happen to a very small particle hitting the thin top of the atmosphere at this speed. He decided that if the particle were small enough, about 4 microns (.000156 in.) in diameter, the heat generated by its friction with the air would be carried away (by radiation and other effects) without heating the particle. The "critical size" that he calculated theoretically was close to the actual size of Landsberg's particles. This is strong evidence, said Whipple, that...
Born. To Dorothy Lamour (nee Slater), 34, cinema sarongstress and leading lady to Hope and Crosby (Road to Utopia, Road to Morocco, etc.), and second husband William Ross Howard III, 42, wartime A.A.F. major now an advertising executive: their second child, second son; in Los Angeles. Name: Richard Thompson. Weight...
Married. Sarah Churchill, 34, redhaired, green-eyed second daughter of Winston Churchill, onetime chorus girl, wartime WAAF officer, and cinemactress (All Over the Town); and Anthony Beauchamp (rhymes with reach 'um), 32, British society photographer; she for the second time; in Sea Island...
Professor Medawar will deliver a series of lectures on "Studies on Growth, Individuality and Ageing." The second talk of general interest will be given at the same time and place Thursday...