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...perhaps a little optimistic when he predicted that the West Coast states will elect Wallace delegations to the Democratic convention. But the fact remains that Mr. Wallace is the recognized leader of a large but amorphous group that encompasses the most active part of the Democratic "liberal" element. He is voicing the issues which will be prominent in the election of 1948 and for many years to come. The opportunity to hear his views expressed, ungarbled and first hand, is one that should not be passed over lightly by his friends or his opponents...
...chemical element, No. 61 is not good for much; it is almost as unstable as curium. The longest-lasting of its two isotopes has a half-life of 3.7 years...
...chemists' meeting last week, Dr. B. Smith Hopkins, 74, retired professor at the University of Illinois, rose to defend his priority on No. 61. In 1926, he insisted, he had found the element by observing its spectrum. Other experts testified that he must have made a mistake. Chief count against Dr. Hopkins' claim: Element 61 is so short-lived that it could hardly have existed in nature...
Until the question of priority is settled, Element 61 will have no official name. Dr. Hopkins has called it illinium. Mr. Glendenin wants to call it prometheum after the Greek god Prometheus, giver of fire. One convention wag suggested grovesium, after loud-mouthed Major General Leslie R. Groves, military chief of the atom bomb project. Chemical symbol...
...fact that in Conrad's case it is hard to separate the art of fiction from the struggle to tell the truth; all Conrad's narratives in their way exemplify his own obedience to Stein's famous injunction in Lord Jim: ". . . To the destructive element submit yourself, and with the exertions of your hands and feet in the water make the deep, deep sea keep...