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Fronts & Masses. About the time of World War I, Professor Vilhelm Bjerknes of Norway and his son Jacob decided that the fractious cyclones, though they may be 1,000 miles across, are only minor bit-players in the weather drama. The leading players are enormous masses of cold, dry air that sweep down from the polar regions at irregular intervals. The Bjerknes theory, emphasizing fronts and air masses rather than cyclones, lit up meteorology like a new sun rising, and upgraded it into a more exact science. It is still the basis of the familiar newspaper weather maps...
...Died. Vilhelm Bjerknes, 89, Norway's "father of modern meteorology," whose weather "fronts" greatly increased the accuracy of weather forecasts; in Oslo, Norway. Bjerknes' pioneering shifted emphasis from ground observations to the upper air, explained weather change by the interaction of polar and tropical "air masses." His system was gradually adopted by the U.S. Weather Bureau in the early...
Died. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, 77, Denmark's leading man of letters; in Copenhagen. Author of 60-odd books and reams of essays, Jensen was most famous for The Long Journey, a massive fictional history of primitive man, won a Nobel Prize in 1944. He was seldom translated and thus little known outside Denmark, where he was a bestseller (The Long Journey did not appear in full in the U.S. until...