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Between the poles of the magnet is a doughnut-shaped glass vacuum tube, 74 inches across. A heated filament sprays electrons (particles of negative electricity) into the tube. The intense electric field stirred up by the magnetism between the poles makes the electrons whirl round & round the tube in a circular orbit. In 1 240th of a second they make 250,000 complete circuits. The enormous velocity of all this whirling, measured in electrical terms, is equivalent to 100 million volts...
...this, along with a highly vocalized romance between Kosciuszko and a Polish girl (Marta Eggerth), is drenched in thicker-than-usual musicomedy mulligatawny. Crowds of peasants, more Ruritanian than Polish, whirl about with almost frightening energy; court balls are halted by the alarums of war; battlefields, bathed in lurid crimson light, are agitated by frantic flag-waving ballets...
...drop of water were enlarged to the size of the earth, each atom in it would be about the size of an orange. Yet most of an atom is empty space through which the electrons whirl. The nucleus itself occupies only one million-billionth of the atom's bulk...
...Queen Was Off Key. In the present edition of letters (the most complete in 80 years) Felix' frivolity bubbles as brightly as it does in his music. In London the young man of fashion found "Such a whirl! It is mad! I am quite giddy and confused. . . . Lady Morgan was there, and Winterhalter, and Mrs. Jameson, and Duprez, who . . . sang a French romance. . . . Who can count them...
...President got most of his relaxation from occasional swims in the White House pool, had little time for outside entertainment. But Mrs. Truman took her place in the Washington social whirl, proved herself equal to the rigors of teas, dinners and receptions. At one crowded affair an ample and obviously uncomfortable dowager approached to inquire, "My, aren't you warm?" The First Lady replied: "Most certainly not. I find it very comfortable." Last week she held her first formal White House party (for wives of the diplomatic set), planned a tea for newspaperwomen this week. She also found time...