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...judging the 9,944 entries for the yearly summer painting exhibition. By such reserved accolades as a grunt, a gently lifted hand and a muttered "Not too bad, what?" the committeemen had given a number of paintings the stature of D for doubtful, while marking the others X for rejected. Suddenly Academy President Charles Wheeler looked at a painting, put down his cup, summoned other committeemen to inspect the work "at once." To a man, they gave the painting an A*-an honor not awarded since "before our time," according to Academy Secretary Humphrey Brooke...
...Allen was sure that no ray-free belt could exist between the earth and space. The only reasonable explanation, he decided, was that the silenced Geiger tubes had been knocked out temporarily by radiation too intense for them to handle. So he subjected a spare tube to X-ray bombardment in the laboratory. After studying its behavior, he decided that the tubes carried by the satellites must have passed through radiation equivalent to 35,000 counts per second, but were so choked up that they could not report their experience...
...Wednesday, May 21 MWF 9 III Friday, May 23 MWF 10 IV Thursday, May 29 MWF 11 V Tuesday, May 27 MWF 12 VI Thursday, May 22 MWF 1 VII Saturday, May 24 MWF 2 VIII Wednesday, May 28 MWF 3 IX Wednesday, May 28 MWF 4 X Tuesday, June 3 TTS 8 XI Monday, May 26 TTS 9 XII Saturday, May 31 TTS 10 XIII Monday, June 2 TTS 11 XIV Saturday, May 24 TTS 12 XV Tuesday, June 3 TTS 1 XVI Tuesday, June 3 TTS 2 XVII Thursday, May 22 TTS 3 XVIII Thursday...
According to a Naval spokesman, the satellite contained an instrument designed to measure the sun's output of X-rays and broadcast its findings to earth. This research would aid in discovering the cause of sun-spot interference on radio waves...
Taking Over. For three hours under an X-ray machine. Mrs. Lowman was subjected to massive radiation that killed all her bone marrow. Her white blood corpuscle count fell from the normal 5,000 per cubic centimeter to zero. Then a kidney from a four-year-old girl (whose treatment for hydrocephalus required kidney removal) was transplanted to Mrs. Lowman. The Boston surgeons attached it to the femoral arteries and veins below the groin in her right thigh. She received a dozen marrow transfusions before and during the operation, mainly from her brothers. With her count of disease-fighting white...