Word: stevenson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...existence of "heavy electrons," also known as X-particles or barytrons, was suspected by Anderson and his co-workers in 1934, and later discovered almost simultaneously by him and Drs. Jabez Curry Street & Edward Stevenson of Harvard. These queer little particles appear to originate about ten miles above the earth's surface as a result of collisions between primary cosmic ray particles and air atoms. Calculations of their mass have yielded figures from 110 to 400 times the weight of an ordinary electron...
Mercury Theatre (Mon. 9 p.m. CBS) comes to radio for the first time to begin a series of dramatized narrations with Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island...
Graham Greene, good-looking, slender, 33, is a cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson. His first novel, The Man Within (1929), a psychological study of a cowardly smuggler, bore strong resemblances to Treasure Island. His psychological-action novels have continued to show a Stevenson influence. But though he got off to a flying start with his Stevenson inheritance, he has never been able to travel...
Kidnapped (Twentieth Century-Fox). In telling this story. Robert Louis Stevenson indulged in a few frank errors. But the only far-reaching one was his foreword, saying ''how little I am touched by the desire of accuracy." For from this offered inch Hollywood was bound to make an ell. The past cinema season has been pretty rough on Stevenson-adding a blonde Kozatsky dancer to the Soviet's Treasure Island (TIME, Jan. 31), flaunting an unimagined Hollywood ingenue in a Technicolored sarong in Ebb Tide (TIME, Nov. 29)-but in Kidnapped, R. L. S. takes the count...
...solemn Whig lad, David Balfour of Shaws, 14-year-old Freddie Bartholomew may be a shade on the jackanapes side for those who want their Stevenson straight, but he fits this feckless Fox version. Gibbous nose aloft and in fine priggish voice, Master Freddie imparts phonetic reality to an age when Britishers wrote s's that looked like...