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...Berkeley researchers have also created a small trace of Radium E-not a temporarily radioactive substance but actual radium. The Lawrence cyclotron technique has in the past five years come to be recognized as the most efficient atom-smashing device in the world. Eleven cyclotrons are either in operation or being built in the U. S., one in Canada, eleven in Europe and the Orient. And many of these projects are directed or staffed by men who learned their cyclotron technique as research fellows under Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cyclotron Man | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...results were inconclusive, Lawrence feels that no such promising line of investigation should be dropped until it has been followed out further. His brother, Dr. John Lawrence of Yale Medical School, is helping him with the biological research and writing reports for medical publications. Another possibility is to trace the metabolism of iron and calcium in the body by means of radio-iron and radio-calcium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cyclotron Man | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Statesman Munters, conversing easily in Russian with Statesman Stalin, noted the Dictator's expansive natural charm, coupled with earthy peasant shrewdness and no trace of being a Communist intellectual. Mr. Munters, knowing how many abstruse, voluminous Communist tracts have been printed with Joseph Stalin as the author, tried to draw him into intellectual discourse. Invariably J. Stalin's rough and ready ideas, questions and replies had to do with quick facts, not theory. His queries about Latvia, Statesman Munters was distressed to find, showed an all but complete lack of knowledge of the facts of Latvian history, since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Two Nots | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...annually, Hollywood's highest writing stipend. Soon thereafter he went on leave to try compacting two more ideas into three acts each. In the tortured and tortuous mental life of his hero Sterns in To Quito and Back, friends of Playwright Hecht thought they saw more than a trace of autobiography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Fawcett colleagues trace this most cultural of the 20 Fawcett Publications to "Captain Billy's" own life. His schooling ended in the grades, was continued in extensive travels and omnivorous reading. In 1932 he divorced red-headed Antoinette Fisher Fawcett who had helped make his Whiz Bang sizzle. She immediately bought the smutty Calgary Eye Opener with her alimony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Funk & Fawcett | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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