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...second week's hearing at Albany popped into the open one new fact?the name of Betty Compton, musicomedienne, as the "unknown person" to whom Mayor Walker had given $7,000. During a recess Chicago Tribune's John Boettiger asked if it were...
...eclipse is complete along a 100-mi, path, partial over the entire U. S. The path of totality moves at nearly 34 mi. per min. from northwest to southeast? from the Arctic Ocean, past the North Magnetic Pole (near where Professor Arthur Holly Compton hopes to be), across Hudson Bay, James Bay, Province of Quebec, New Hampshire, northern Vermont and southern Maine, the northeastern tip of Massachusetts, Cape Cod. The eclipse ends in the middle of the Atlantic...
...soon as he made his readings of cosmic rays above Mexico, he dashed for a north-bound train. At Kansas City he said good-by to Mrs. Compton and Alan. They proceded to Chicago & home, he to Winnipeg. He wants to get to Chesterfield Inlet north of Churchill in time to note what the solar eclipse does to cosmic rays near the North Magnetic Pole. In his dash Professor Compton hastened past the U. S. Aerological Station at Ellendale, N. D. Thereby he just missed conjunction with his fellow Nobel Laureate, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology...
...action of his manager saves the situation. The manager effects a speedy reconciliation between the chorus girl and her first admirer. The mayor mournfully marries them. Only New Yorkers with very special inside knowledge know how closely this plot adheres to Mayor Walker's friendship with Actress Betty Compton, who suddenly married Cinema Director Edward Duryea Dowling last year and left town (TIME, March 2, 1931). Most neatly timed of the topical cinemas which Hollywood has recently furnished, this one is also one of the least instructive, most diverting. More vulgar than Mayor Walker, Mayor Kingston has himself measured...
...other hand, Dr. Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1927 Nobel Prizewinner with Arthur Holly Compton) has claimed that the top of the cloud is positive, the bottom negative, and Nebraska Wesleyan's Jensen last month backed him up in the Physical Review. Sitting at night in the window of a high campus building long-jawed, slow-spoken Professor Jensen has been taking photographs of lightning flashes for seven years using a large-size news camera with an extra large lens. For the past two years, with his son's help, he has also been using an insulated metal deck connected with...