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Kerst is also the betatron's christener. At first he thought of calling it the "Ausserordentlichhochges chwindigkeit-electronenentwickelndesschwerab eitsbei-gollitron," German for "extraordinarily high-speed electron generator, hard work by golly-tron." He settled for "Betatron," from beta particle (high-speed electron...
...ultimate destination will be the Administration building on the Wellesley campus. There the tron-legged victors are to receive their awards from a committee of Wellesleyites. Pre-race forecasts from Dunster hint at a warm reception, and many observers predict a new record for the distance...
...canvases on view, not one was unimportant. Present were such frequently reproduced works as Picasso's mustachioed Harlequin, a good Tahiti Gauguin, Renoir's Claude as a Clown in Red, Cezanne's Man with a Pipe, eight irreproachable Derains. Another beauteous young socialite ma tron to take art seriously is Mrs. Mary Gallery Coudert, who last week obtained a Paris divorce from Attorney Frederic R. ("Fritz") Coudert Jr. (defeated last November for New York's District Attorney- ship by Tammany's Judge Thomas C. T. Grain) because domesticity interfered with her sculpture. She will make...