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...Middle Flight TRY THE SKY-Francis Stuart-Macmillan ($2). Irishman Francis Stuart may never set the Liffey afire but it will not be for lack of trying. Author Compton Mackenzie (Sinister Street et al.), who writes a reverently admiring introduction to Try the Sky, thinks Stuart can do it. Says he: "I am proud to think that my name may be associated, be it in ever so humble a way, with a work of the most profound spiritual importance to the modern world. ... I suggest that Francis Stuart has a message for the modern world of infinitely greater importance than...
...Round Hill, South Dartmouth, Mass., in a dirigible hangar which Col. Edward Howland Robinson (Hetty's son) Green loaned, three of President Karl Taylor Compton's M. I. T. men have built an electrostatic high voltage generator to compete with lightning's violence. Last week in Chicago President Compton announced that shortly the machine would be ready to operate. In preliminary workouts it produced six million volts, would have produced ten million had not the difference diffused into the metal walls of Col. Green's hangar. Workmen now are insulating those walls, and Robert...
...Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan of Pasadena, Physicist Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago...
Motoring to lecture at Cornell College (Mount Vernon, la.) Dr. Arthur Holley Compton, co-winner of the Nobel prize in physics for 1927 (cosmic rays), skidded on the wet pavement of the Lincoln Highway, crashed into another car, demolished his own, escaped serious injury. Hospitalized were his two companions of last summer's cosmic ray junket to the Andes (TIME, March 28): his wife, with cuts about the body and head, a nail through her left hand, and their son Arthur Alan, with a lacerated scalp...
...instead of at the Squadron A Armory in Manhattan. Chicago's 124th Field Artillery Armory has better seating facilities than the Manhattan Armory so it was there last week that an Army team of Captain Candler A. ("Wilky") Wilkinson, Captain Chester E. (''Stub") Davis and Major Compton C. ("C-Square") Smith played Winston Guest's Optimists for the Danforth Cup, in the Indoor Open final. The game was delayed until nearly 10:30 p. m. so that an international radio hook-up could let Argentines hear how the ponies they sold the U. S. players last...