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...Minister to Austria. Last year Minister Earle resigned his post to run for Governor of Pennsylvania. Anthony Joseph Drexel ("Tony") Biddle Jr., rich Philadelphia socialite, contributed handsomely to his friend George Earle's campaign fund. One evening last week after a farewell dinner on the Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel "Tony" Biddle gratefully gripped Governor Earle's hand.* sailed off to be Minister to Norway (TIME, July...
Einstein Confirmation. Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (1915) contained two statements based on the premise that light had mass. One was that starlight passing close to the sun should be bent by the sun's gravitational field. That was confirmed in 1921 by Dr. Robert Julius Trumpler of California's Lick Observatory, who produced photographs taken during a solar eclipse showing stars near the sun's rim appar-ently displaced from their true position. The other statement was that light moving against a gravitational field should be "stretched" by the strain-i. e. suffer...
...Evening Star, wrote his 1,340 members: "It would be impossible to plan a procedure that would more effectively scuttle the Associated Press than the proposals advanced by Mr. Neylan." The battle for proxies went on until last week, when it moved onto the floor of the incongruously elegant Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. His big frame draped over a front-row chair whence he could easily address barbed asides to President Noyes on the platform. Lawyer Neylan let a potent "lit tle fellow" open his attack for a five-point program. The little fellow was youthful...
...mass and energy: E = MC², where E is energy, M mass, C the velocity of light. Since then experimental physicists have converted matter into radiation and radiation into matter. In 1919 the fact that radiant energy responds to gravitation as matter does was demonstrated by the bending of starlight on passing around the sun. And, according to the theory, not only radiant energy but energy of motion had mass. Thus a steamship or cannon ball weighed infinitesimally more when moving than at rest...
...Starlight Roof Garden of the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan one night last week a cosmopolitan group of well-groomed gentlemen and their ladies sat down for a long and pleasant dinner. No ordinary meal was this. Eleven years ago to the very night Lucius Boomer played host to the same group in his old Waldorf-Astoria down on 34th Street. Now in his bigger & better Waldorf on Park Avenue Mr. Boomer was again entertaining the officers and executive committee of the International Hotel Alliance...