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...Frying Pan (by Francis Swann, produced by William Deering & Alexander Kirkland). In this foolish little item a group of ambitious young theatre people impersonate a group of ambitious young theatre people trying to interest the producer who lives downstairs. By the time they have acted a burlesque crime play for him, there have been more accidents and horseplay than there are at an American Legion convention. There are dozens of laughs for easy laughers. Sample: "An opportunity like that, and he didn't goose her!-he's in love." Sounder chuckles come when the producer (Reynolds Evans...
Last week suave, British-born William Francis Gray Swann, director of the Franklin Institute's Bartol Research Foundation in Swarthmore, Pa., suggested that even the notion of charged particles might be jettisoned. He preferred to think of the atom as just a region of "wiggling knottiness," a something free to behave in any way it likes. In psychology, the behaviorists and mechanists refuse to worry about what the human mind really is, study it as a series of behavior patterns. Dr. Swann fancies atomic behaviorism...
...Swann delivered his harangue for freedom at the autumn meeting of the National Academy of Sciences, held last week at the University of Pennsylvania...
...been in Richmond last week it would have heard something very gratifying. Edwin Grant Conklin, Princeton's famed biologist, declared that it was a mistake to attribute the origin of the biological cell theory, whose centenary is being observed in scientific circles, to two Germans, Schleiden and Swann. "Their theory," said Dr. Conklin, "was a special and in important respects an erroneous one. There is no present biological interest in their theory. . . . Cells were first seen, named, described and figured by Robert Hooke ... 170 years before the work of Schleiden and Swann. Hooke . . . described among many other things...
...Garden of Eden. That broke up because of his predilection for young girls. During the diphtheria epidemic the Templers had not been able to harvest the crops. They had no way of getting through the winter. James Prince had $20,000. Despite the opposition of Isaiah, Father Swann took...