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...atom smashers have grown larger and more powerful, the subatomic particles that scientists have been able to find have grown stranger and more elusive. Still, it hardly seemed probable that anyone would ever discover another bit of matter quite so peculiar as the neutrino, first detected near a nuclear reactor in 1956. So light that it weighs nothing at all, the neutrino is free of electric charge and can pass through the heaviest materials as if it were hurtling through empty space. But last week, a team of Columbia University physicists did the improbable: using 5,000 tons of battleship...
Culligan (who wears an eye patch because of a World War II injury) is a favorite son in advertising but a stranger to the Curtises-evidence that the outside directors now have considerable influence...
...ratified on St. Patrick's Day, on his 30th transatlantic air crossing. "I was huddled up front with the kids," recalled Buchwald's wife Ann. "Dawn was coming up. Art stood over me. He looked grubby. He'd lost $100 playing gin rummy with a stranger-a stranger to me anyway. 'You know.' he said. 'I'm thinking about going back. How would you like it?' I said I thought it'd be marvelous. I was thinking about the new curtains I was going to have to buy for the apartment...
American university presidents are a strange breed. Stranger still are American university presidents-emeriti, a group that has variously found its way back to the classroom, into public office, into business, or back to the farm. Some presidents-emeriti become Experts on American Education and write reports, usually thanks to the Carnegie Foundation. Harold W. Dodds, President of Princeton University from 1933 to 1957, has accomplished the ultimate: he has come up with a report for the Carnegie Foundation on college presidents...
Chapter 5 ("Lament in Lament") of The Circle of 7 appears on page 12 of today's CRIMSON Review. Security officials are sifting reports of a small, foreign-looking man seen lurking at the offices of Boston Linotype Company (Review printers) at press time last Friday. The stranger soon disappeared. But could this mysterious apparition explain the curious title on the new episode: The Circle...