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HOLLYWOOD, March 23--Peter Lorre, on screen a master of horror but off screen one of the gentlest and funniest of men, was found dead today of an apparent stroke...
...pound. But LH2 begins to boil above -423 °F., and because it is so cold, engineers usually find it too hot to handle. Most metals shiver to pieces when they come in contact with it, and its extreme volatility makes it flash into explosive gas at the gentlest slosh...
...Greenwich Village, off-Broadway's theaters exert the faintly exotic double lure of intellectual climbing and Bohemian slumming among asthenic men with beards and girls with Lady Godiva hairdos. The playhouses themselves are adventures, or misadventures; in these pleasure domes, a chair arm may fall off at the gentlest touch. But seedy surroundings cannot tarnish the bright promise that off-Broadway holds out and sometimes spectacularly fulfills. It gives new playwrights, directors and actors a voice. On intimate, semiround or full arena stages, old and neglected classics have been given fresh airings. When it sticks to what Broadway cannot...
...cancerlike process. (Best-known example: Hodgkin's disease.) There may be miles of lymphatic ducts, but they are so fragile and elusive that nobody has measured them. Often buried in fat, they shrink to the vanishing point when not filled with fluid, and disappear at the gentlest touch of the anatomist's probe...
...discovery was made by Dr. Wilhelm Rindner while he was poking under a microscope with a delicate probe, studying surface defects on a tiny transistor. The transistor was hooked up to a voltmeter, and Dr. Rindner soon noticed something peculiar: even his gentlest pokes at the transistor made the voltmeter fluctuate. He concluded that the transistor was sensitive to pressure as well as to electrical effects...