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¶ In Baltimore, Hearst executives tried two years ago to bail the ailing News-Post out of the doldrums by sending in a top troubleshooter. Managing Editor William Townes, 50. Ahead of the prosperous Sun papers in circulation, the News-Post had long played second fiddle in advertising revenue, as...
Maser Measure. Then, in 1954, Professor Charles H. Townes of Columbia University invented the ammonia maser. The maser is a device in which ammonia molecules are subjected to electrical excitation, giving off radio microwaves of accurately known frequency. If any sort of ether exists, these waves (which move at the...
In 1958, assisted by John Cedarholm of International Business Machines, Dr. Townes set up his ether-hunting apparatus in IBM's Watson Laboratory at Columbia. Two masers were arranged so that they shot their microwaves in opposite directions. As the masers (and the lab) swung with the turning earth...
Last week Professor Townes was satisfied. He announced that his apparatus could easily have detected an ether effect even if the earth were moving on its orbit at only one-thousandth the speed it actually travels. Relativity, he concluded, is on firm ground.
At once urbane and eerie, Deadly Game achieved some of the quality of a Lord Dunsany shocker, benefited from skilled construction as well as from Actor Merrill's supple playing at the head of a sure cast, including Boris Karloff and Harry Townes. Closing scene: Merrill's widow...