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...contains a couple of errors. You say Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard (see cut) is "no astronaut." TIME'S reporter evidently has not read Goddard's classical paper on rockets, A Method of Reaching Extreme, Altitudes, published' in 1919 by the Smithsonian Institution. This is the monograph that reopened rocket experimentation, and really started the modern era of rocket research. In it Goddard not only showed how to reach "high altitudes" theoretically, but also gave considerable space to ways of reaching the moon, and gave the results of some experiments he had made to send some flash powder...
...million dollars' worth of steel-industry talent for-gathered, by some mischance, in the wrong room. When the mistake was discovered, the high-priced executives, economists, public-relations counselors, lawyers, et al. put on their Homburgs, gathered up their brief cases, and marched, 100 strong, to the Smithsonian Institution. Upstairs past the stuffed moose, not far from Lindbergh's rickety-looking little Spirit of St. Louis, and in an auditorium surrounded by herds of dinosaurs and mastodons, they sat down to hear what they had come for: the most determined assault on the Little Steel formula...
Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it, complained Mark Twain. Last week, however, somebody did. Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, grey, 72-year-old Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, announced the most important advance in weather forecasting since...
Scientists in general have given surprisingly little study to the effects of the sun on the weather. But Astrophysicist Abbot has been watching solar radiation with heliotrope devotion for 49 years. Twenty-five years ago he began to take daily recordings of solar heat. The Smithsonian set up delicate measuring instruments on three mountaintops in desert areas which averaged 300 cloudless days a year-Table Mountain, Calif., Burro Mountain, N. Mex. and Mt. Montezuma, Chile...
...Knockout. A dignified, hawk-faced little man (5 ft. 5 in.) of 55, who takes his museum as seriously as if it were the Smithsonian, boxing's foremost expert and historian is no boxer himself. He fought his last fight at the age of 14 in a Boys' Club exhibition and was knocked out in the first round. He has revered the ring ever since. As boxing writer and sports editor on the old New York Press and on Munsey papers, and since 1922 as editor of Ring, he has seen 10,000 fights, picked up first-hand...