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...engage in). "What is the use of occupying a high position, while degrading one's character?'' he once wrote. The theme of his era, says Dr. Lin, is a "study of national degeneration through party strife, ending in the sapping of national strength and the triumphant misrule of the petty politicians...
Squabble. When U.S. air scientists heard the triumphant trumpetings of the British press, they protested that they, too, had shot rocket-driven missiles through the sonic barrier. So they had, but their missiles were even less airplanelike than Vicky. Even the initially controlled V-2 (which reaches nearly five times the speed of sound) is not supported by the air, as a genuine airplane must be. The U.S. Navy's ramjet, or "flying stovepipe," is merely a power plant boosted into the air for a brief, uncontrolled flight...
...Triumphant Work. Imbedded in Max Planck's Law of Radiation (published in 1901) was something vastly more important: Planck's "universal constant" (6.624 x 10 -27 erg-seconds), now considered one of the three fundamental figures in the universe.* Planck's constant enabled Einstein to conceive the "photon" (particle of radiation). It also made possible Niels Bohr's model of the atom. It turned up in spectroscopy, in the study of X rays, in electronics. Upon it is based the whole science of quantum (wave) mechanics...
...Triumphant Life. Planck himself had triumphs, too. He became rector of the University of Berlin, and won the 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics. But when the Nazis came into power, German scientists with Jewish blood (including Einstein) were hounded out of the country. Many "Aryan" scientists fled too; but old Max Planck stayed behind. In 1934 (he was 76), he went in person to Hitler, to demand an end of Jewish persecution. Hitler turned his back while the old man talked. The following year, Planck was removed from the presidency of the Kaiser Wilhelm Gesellschaft (a scientific society). When...
Novello is the author of 22 plays (of which only two have been flops). His triumphant Dancing Years is still moving blithely from province to province after a marathon run of eight years. He played his first stage role in 1921, partly because his family disapproved, and wrote his first play in 1924 with Constance Collier. His songwriting career began even earlier. During World War I his mother, a well-known English music teacher, announced her intention of composing a patriotic song. "She did," explains Novello brightly, "and it was perfectly ghastly. So I wrote one myself." It was Keep...