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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atomic bomb has two "subcritical masses" of plutonium or uranium 235. When the two masses are far away from each other, nothing happens. The neutrons generated spontaneously within each piece escape so rapidly through the surface that a chain reaction cannot get started. But when the two pieces are brought close together, the neutrons stay in the uranium longer. By splitting uranium atoms and thus releasing more neutrons, they start a nuclear chain reaction which does not stop until the explosion has scattered the fissionable material...
Last week, tall, ruddy Clarinetist Reginald Kell, recognized as one of the world's best, let Manhattan judge his respectability in person for the first time. Snowbound in the suburbs, he stomped in the stage door just ten minutes before he was scheduled to start Brahms's B Minor Quintet with the Busch Quartet. But listeners, when they could hear his clarinet over the Busch's whirring blizzard of sound, found nothing snowbound about his playing. Instead, in the slow movement, which he had more, to himself, they heard the kind of soft, singing tone and delicate...
...around the world after the glass slipper's owner so that they could have a whirl at Turkish, Spanish and African dances. Said Ashton: "The trouble with most long ballets is that no matter how good they are, they tend to wear an audience out." His trick: "We start off with a heavy dose, let each succeeding act get shorter & shorter." It worked. At week's end, the next twelve performances of Cinderella were solidly sold out, and three weeks more were added to the schedule...
Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer (Eugenia Zareska, contralto, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; English Decca, 4 sides). A good place to start piercing some of the more heavily veiled mysteries of Mahler. The London Philharmonic is led by Amsterdam's highly capable Conductor van Beinum. Recording: good...
More than a third of the Protestants and about a tenth of the Catholics and Jews (who usually start seminary training at an earlier age) are war veterans; most of the Protestants are married. Few are free from financial strain. Although nearly all the students at McCormick have a part-time preaching assignment, or work at other outside jobs, most of their wives also work...