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...general in the Civil War, but resigned from the Army because he was an epileptic. His most notable service as Minister to Rome was to help bring about the arrest and extradition of John H. Surratt, of Surrattsville, Md., who conspired with Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Surratt had fled to Rome and joined the Papal Zouaves. He was never convicted, but his mother, Mary E. Surratt, was hanged for aiding Booth. King, an editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette and a leader in the movement for an expanded public-school system, said that Congress ended...
Although our "post office booth" has carried its half-ton of subscription lists to 89 conventions and trade meetings, this was only the second time prizes were offered for naming post offices not on the lists. The original plan was to offer prizes for naming counties to which no subscription copies are mailed. This idea was dismissed as patently unfair, because only four of the nation's 3,070 counties could have qualified...
...paying booth, situated in the Ghirlandajo Room in Agassiz, will be open today and tomorrow from 8:45 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Any extensions given must be referred to the Dean's office through student council treasurer Adele Gilmore '53 today...
Unseen Searchlight. Columbia's cyclotron yielded its first meson beam about a year ago, when Dr. Eugene T. Booth (now working on a secret Government project) was in charge of the great machine. Since then, the meson beam has played like an unseen searchlight around the flank of the cyclotron, lighting up dark corners of atomic physics. The mass of the quick-vanishing pi meson has been measured accurately, as well as its "spin," which is something like rotation. Dr. James Rainwater, the present boss of the cyclotron, is finding out what happens when mesons hit protons, neutrons...
...date, Booth and Watts have received no reply...