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...Friday, April 11, a group began to coalesce around Ted Coltman '69, David Lane 4G, and Rich Rabinowitz 3G, for the purpose of initiating concrete new directions in learning. The title, "HARVARD NEW COLLEGE" was agreed upon; about 40 persons worked through the weekend on the problems of defining and publicizing its existence and setting up "co-operative explorations...
...internal organs in action. But there are two difficulties: a doctor's eyes function poorly in the dim light needed to make the fluoroscopic image visible; the X-ray intensities now used can't be stepped up without endangering the patient. Last week Westinghouse Physicist John Wo Coltman, 32, who has been inventing gadgets since he was a boy, thought he had the answer: an X-ray intensifier, to give physicians a look as much as 500 times clearer than with ordinary fluoroscopes...
...intensifier, which Coltman calls a "telescope," works by a triple play, from X rays to light rays to electrons and back to light again; it amplifies the X rays only after they have passed through the body, so danger to the patient is not increased. A pilot model has worked in the laboratory; a full-scale apparatus is now being built. Most likely uses: studying the heart's action, detecting early cancer and tuberculosis...
...Boxer Rebellion, Dr. Morrison of the London Times and Dr. Robert Coltman of the News were besieged in the foreign compound at Peking. A Chinese beggar smuggled their stories to Tientsin. In 1904, the News had a reporter traveling with Kuroki's Army through Manchuria. When Japan silenced the wireless on the London Times's dispatch boat, the News was left with the only working press craft in the Yellow Sea. Victor Lawson was more concerned with making the News a good paper than running up his circulation, but the News grew with its city...
...ever died more charmingly than the Earl of Balfour at 81 last week in the home of his brother and heir Rt. Hon. Gerald William Balfour. A bachelor to the last, he whispered to his nurse. "Is it the end?" She nodded and he motioned for his valet, Coltman. who came with streaming eyes. "Shake hands." whispered the Earl, and Coltman clasped his master's hand, choking with emotion. "Goodbye, James! Thank you very much for all you have done for me."-such were the last words of the Earl of Balfour...