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...experimental findings of Professor Isidor Isaac Rabi & associates at Columbia. Year ago Dr. Bethe was hailed by astrophysicists for figuring out that carbon must be the stuff that enables the sun to turn fragments of hydrogen atoms into sunshine (TIME, Feb. 27). Lately he has been working on the function in the atom's nucleus of a particle called the "mesotron," which weighs about 200 times as much as an electron, about one-ninth as much as a proton or a neutron. His findings, completed last week, will shortly be published in Physical Review...
...conservative, agrees with many a Red-abhorring publisher that newsmen, who must write objectively, should not belong to an organization which expresses its beliefs publicly on controversial issues. In a statement accepting the Guild presidency last week he said: "It is my opinion that the Guild's primary function is to protect and improve the wages, hours and working conditions of newspaper people; . . . that it is not the Guild's business to reform the world or the world's newspapers." Like Broun, he intends to remain an active newspaperman, confine his Guild activities to speeches, presiding...
Amiable, rotund Francis Taylor is one of the young directors now engaged in making U. S. museums look alive.* He believes that a museum's function, like Gaul, is divided into three parts : acquiring art, luring people in to see it, teaching them to make it part of their daily lives. The average American sees the inside of an art museum only once in five years. By upping attendance from 37,000 to 145,000 a year, Director Taylor made a monkey of this average at Worcester. A similar opportunity awaits him at the Metropolitan, where attendance has slumped...
...proper function of Harvard College, the Council believes, is to provide a liberal education. In Harvard College vocational preparation as such has no place. The Council's idea of a liberal education is not one which is free of requirements but one which is designed to free human beings from ignorance and prejudice. Liberal education accordingly should give the student some idea of our common tradition of human experience and also the intellectual tools with which he can confront new problems successfully...
...Function of the State Health Service is to prevent epidemics, not to treat sore throats, broken ankles, pellagra or appendicitis. Until 1938, penniless migrants were left to doctor such maladies themselves. But after the fierce winter floods, the Farm Security Administration offered to finance a system of community medical care which would give the migrants free doctoring, medicines and hospital care, pay local physicians reasonable amounts for their services. Joining with representatives of the California Medical Association, and Dr. Dickie, FSA formed the Agricultural Workers Health and Medical Association, only Government-supported "panel system...