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...years ago and called it the cosmic ray. He found that it penetrated 50 ft. of lead, 200 ft. of water. Last year Professor Auguste Piccard, cruising into the stratosphere ten miles above earth, found evidence of the same ray (TIME, June 8). Also last year Professor Arthur Holly Compton found traces of them atop the Rocky Mountains and the Alps...
...Anderson evidence is good in its way. To get proof from a different angle, Dr. Millikan will soon send balloons bearing registering instruments to an altitude higher than Professor Piccard's ten miles where atmosphere has less effect on cosmic rays. And Professor Compton (Dr. Millikan was his preceptor at the University of Chicago, taught him how to win a Nobel Prize) will this spring and summer make a world tour of mountain tops lugging machines too heavy for balloons...
Married. Reinhold Niebuhr, 39, leader of U. S. religious youth, editor of World Tomorrow, professor at Union Theological Seminary; and Ursula Mary Keppel-Compton; in Winchester, England...
Husband's Holiday (Paramount) is a solemn little problem play on marital infidelity, a subject which usually in the cinema is material for fun. The three persons chiefly involved?husband (Clive Brook), wife (Vivienne Osborne) and mistress (Juliette Compton)?regard their situation as a predicament. They make honest and generally sensible efforts to extricate themselves. The wife is eventually generous enough to give the husband a divorce. He, still troubled by a case of indecision, wanders about in the snow at night, making up his mind which way to go. The mistress, who is not a designing wench...
...store. Yet it was there that 30-year-old Dr. Robert J. Van de Graaff, a Princeton graduate student (on a National Research Council fellowship) purchased the chief sinew of an invention, demonstrated publicly for the first time last week, of which President Karl Taylor Compton of M. I. T. says: "[It] opens up the possibilities of transmutation of the elements on a commercial scale...