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How the average U.S. girl looks with her clothes off' was shown last week by Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. The name of the girl is "Norma." She is a sculptured composite of 15,000 present-day U.S. women, aged about 18 (see cut). The museum...
The Best of Each? Koestler's own preference, like that of most current prophets, is far less pungent and persuasive than his analysis. He has no wish to obliterate the teachings of the Yogi and the Commissar in toto; he is idealistic enough to hope that the best of...
Died. Sir Ambrose Fleming, 95, one of Britain's foremost electrical scientists and pioneer in radio's development, inventor of the diode valve (predecessor of the radio tube), designer of the wireless signal apparatus for Marconi's first transatlantic message in 1901; in Sidmouth, England. In 1933...
How old is the Milky Way? Astronomers have long considered it one of the older galaxies; Sir James Jeans deduced from its shape that the Milky Way (which includes the Earth) is probably in an advanced stage of senility. But this week one of the world's most eminent...
Astronomers have observed that galaxies seem to come in four shapes: 1) spherical, 2) elliptical (like an egg), 3) tightly spiral (like a watch spring) and 4) loosely spiral (like a pinwheel). The Milky Way is a pinwheel. Sir James reasoned that a spherical galaxy spinning in space, like a...