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Died. Dr. James Henry Kimball, 69, longtime New York City weatherman; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. White-maned bachelor Kimball wrote the meteorological classic, Storm Log of the North Atlantic, gained nationwide acclaim in the '20s for his indispensable advice to Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his transatlantic followers...
...inventor of this "electron microanalyzer" is a fledgling still in his late 20s, James Hillier, co-inventor of the electron microscope (TIME, Oct. 28, 1940). The general atomic composition of bacteria and viruses is well known-they are mostly carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen. But under high electronic magnification (100,000 times), bacteria often reveal granules of previously undetected substances that are hard to identify. The granules are much too small to be analyzed by a spectroscope, the conventional instrument for the quick determination of atomic components...
Married. Lieut. Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, 43, Coast Guard Bandmaster, Sinatra of the '20s; and Cinemactress Bette-Jane Greer, 19, almond-eyed ex-cover girl; he for the third time, she for the first; seven years after his divorce from the late cinemactress Fay Webb; in Hollywood...
Most Americans now 40 were still in their 20s when Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House; thousands of U.S. soldiers and sailors fighting around the world remember no other President. Yet associates still marvel at his Gargantuan appetite for work, his ability to relax in the midst of it, his endless gay optimism. As it has to everyone else, the strain of war has wrenched, strained and hacked at his basic traits of character. But in the President's case the grind has only polished what was already polished, only toughened what was already steel-strong...
...White Russian refugee, Huene lived in the Paris of the '20s. He was a movie extra, teashop waiter, once went to Poland as a railway-tie inspector for the Belgian Government. In Paris he finally took up his profession, working for Vogue. He speedily established himself as a master of deluxe and diaphanous effects. He moved to the U.S. in 1935, when he began photographing for Harper's Bazaar...