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...machine was centre-staged last week in a sedate jamboree marking the 40th anniversary of G. E.'s first research laboratory. Almost unheard of in 1900 were science laboratories as adjuncts and stimulants of manufacture. Charles Proteus Steinmetz and a G. E. patent lawyer persuaded Edwin Wilbur Rice Jr.-then technical director, later president-to found one. To start it Rice picked Willis Rodney Whitney, a brilliant and forceful young chemistry teacher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...Freshman Concert Audience, innovated last year by Nathaniel Lauriat '43, started its new series last Sunday with Mozart's 40th Symphony and Schubert's Unfinished before a group of forty listeners...
Last week University of Minnesota's Minnesota Daily celebrated its 40th birthday by putting out an anniversary issue, throwing a party in its elegant new offices, burning a battered, initial-scarred copy desk in front of its old quarters...
Time minded TIME readers would like to see TIME mind time. Whatever 1939 was, it was not "the penultimate year of the 20th Century's fourth decade" (TIME, Jan. 1). Being the 40th year of the 20th Century, 1939 was definitely ultimate. So, drop the pen, spread the fingers and count...
Last week the names of a lot of people like the Renshaws (with or without the Renshaw luck and pluck) appeared in the U. S. press. Some 125,000 of the 32,000,000 who live on U. S. farms had themselves a time at the 40th International Live Stock Exposition, the 18th National 4-H-Club Congress, the 21st American Farm Bureau Federation Convention, many a simultaneous farmfest in Chicago...