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Later Vance Breese really took the ship upstairs, and for the first time Designer Northrop saw his ugly duckling truly in her element. With her wheels tucked up, her humming propellers invisible, she looked like nothing more than an airborne Manta, slack-chinned, glowering through the orifices where her engines take their cooling air. Test Pilot Breese reported that she flew like any other good airplane...
Cyclotron for Cancer. Winner of the Society's gold medal was Dr. John Hundale Lawrence of Berkeley, Calif., brother of Nobelman Ernest Orlando Lawrence, who splits atoms with a giant cyclotron. Brother John said last week that cyclotron bombardment can give any element the emanating qualities of radium. These radioactive elements, when swallowed in liquid form, have two great uses for medicine: 1) in minuscule amounts, they settle in specific organs for a brief time, then can be traced in their journey through the body, providing a clue to the process of growth and repair; 2) in larger doses...
...been easy to picture bombers as flying over our cities--and exciting to appoint fire-wardens, organize defense corps, and in general put or communities, large and small, in a state of readiness for blitzkreig. Now comes an announcement from Lloyd's London, the final authority on the element of chance in this world, that they are ready to give insurance against damage in the bombing of New York, Washington, Boston, or other American cities, at odds of 1000 to 1. Such odds, of course, might just as well be 1,000,000 to 1. They mean that the bombing...
...with which to be marooned on the usual desert island. Even the feadest Hut-Sut fan would find that the saturation point is reached after a very few repetitions of his favorite of the moment and nine other arias of that ilk. But the subtlety, originality, and the personal element in a good jazz performance make it a continual source of enjoyment. The appreciative listener is always discovering new elements of interest, nuances unperceived before, in the same old record...
Only grave, good-looking, lyrical Ingrid Bergman wrings credit from the tortured script. Her portrayal of the unfortunate barmaid who charms Jekyll only to fall victim to Hyde's sadism is a refreshing element in a preposterous part. As for Lana Turner, fully clad for a change, and the rest of the cast (Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, etc.), they are as wooden as their roles. Hyde, heckling Jekyll in the mirror, probably sums it all up best. Says he: "How did such a dull, pompous ass like you ever think of anything as charming as this...