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...Sundowners (Eagle-Lion) is a better-than-routine Technicolored western. Its chief claim to note: it gives his first movie role to John Barrymore Jr., 17, son of the late Great Profile and silent screen beauty Dolores Costello. In a minor part as Jeff Cloud, kid brother of Hero Tom Cloud (Robert Sterling), young John plays with restraint and frequently bears a striking likeness, both in full-face and profile, to his famous father. But his features are too finely chiseled and his acting too low-keyed for all the blood & thunder that goes on in The Sundowners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 22, 1950 | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

Wallace E. Howell '36, Harvard meteorologist, made a three-and-one-half hour cloud-seeding flight Saturday over New York City's Catskill watershed, and said he saw showers which "appeared to be the result of the seeding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rainmaker Seeds Catskill Showers | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...rainmaker dropped about 50 pounds of dry ice, but said he doubted that a great deal of rain was produced. It was his second cloud-seeding flight and his fourth flight over the watershed since the city engaged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rainmaker Seeds Catskill Showers | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...ordered seedlings of silver iodide smoke from the ground level. This method was also tried between 1 and 4:15 p.m. Saturday. Howell said that there were two showers east of the Catskills when he began seeding but that "there were no showers over the Catskills until after the cloud-seeding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rainmaker Seeds Catskill Showers | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...particles makes a track like a "V," with two branches spreading from a single point in space. Therefore, said Anderson, the particle is neutral (while still whole it leaves no track in the cloud chamber), and it disintegrates into two charged particles that do leave tracks. The second new particle has a charge, and therefore leaves a track. But the track has an angle in it, indicating that the original particle turns (at the angle) into two particles, one with a charge and one neutral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Worse Confounded | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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