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When he is not experimenting on cosmic rays, high-haired Director William Francis Gray Swann of Franklin Institute's Bartol Research Foundation, plays a cello. Young William Edgar Danforth, his assistant, plays a cello too. Both are mainstays of the Swarthmore (Pa.) Symphony Orchestra, a volunteer organization of about 40 men and women who play good music free. Because nobody in the orchestra can handle a French horn or a bass clarinet, Drs. Swann and Danforth built an electrical "oscillion" so ingenious that it can be made to sound like either, so simple that a child can master...
...Danforth & Swann oscillion is a simple-looking oblong wooden box with an electrical circuit inside. Current flows through a resistance, is stored up in a condenser, spills into a neon tube, becomes a series of electrical "pulses." A loud speaker translates the pulses into sound...
...individual's good qualities. The idiosyncracies that others have ascribed to Proust- his practice of attending parties bundled in heavy overcoats, his flowery and affected speech-seem not to have bothered Marie Scheikévitch in the least. She describes the heavy log-rolling that went on before Swann's Way appeared, in order to insure it a good press, Proust's anxiety about the reception of his work. Proust died in agony almost as soon as his masterpiece was finished, and in his delirium imagined that a hideous fat woman, dressed in black, had appeared...
Walter R. Amesbury '36, Michaol W. Berliner 1GB, Burdick G. Clarke '38, Eric T. Clarke '38, William M. Ginsberg '37, Ernest W. James '38, Edward T. Ladd '38, William P. Lester '38, James L. Morrisson '38, Oglesby Paul '38, Willis H. Shapley '38, Robert W. Snyder '38, William F. Swann '37, and Warren P. Swett...
...Swann's address was appropriately delivered at a meeting of the American Philosophical Society, oldest learned body in the U. S., founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1727. Its membership (435) and preoccupations are mainly scientific but not exclusively so, as it proved last week by electing to membership Frederic A. Delano, onetime Federal Reserve Board member and uncle of President Roosevelt, and Playwright Eugene O'Neill. Twenty-four other new members were elected. Four years ago the Society was bequeathed $4,225,000 by the late, scholarly Richard Penrose, brother of the late G. O. Politician Boies Penrose...