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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...billeting favors because of her sex. As an all-round journalist, Newshen Higgins may not be quite up to her Trib colleague, Homer Bigart (with whom her feud for beats is already a Korean legend), or with some of the other crack correspondents in Korea. But she tries to make up for it by getting up earlier, and if necessary, working 24 hours a day. Said one colleague: "There's nothing she won't do for a story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pride of the Regiment | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...surprise of Keasler-and the Journal-no Journal readers have complained about Keasler's antics even when they were the victims. Only once did Keasler make Atlantans really mad: that was last month when he posed as a hoarder, went to a chain store and piled a basket high with scarce goods. As other shoppers glared at him, Keasler feared for a while that he was finally going to get it. But all he got was a bawling out from a man who cried: "What should be scarce is people like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Kerchoo! | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...Mario Peragallo, 40, has adopted the twelve-tone theories of Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg, insists he tries to make "dodecaphonic music more beautiful. . . restore some forms of cadence and free melody." At Venice last week his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra jogged along with clearly marked rhythms and occasionally almost a melody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Roman Group | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

According to Drs. Libby and Grosse, the tritium now on earth was formed recently by cosmic rays from outer space hitting and smashing nitrogen atoms in the upper atmosphere. During the confusion, some protons knocked out of the nitrogen make off with two neutrons in attendance. The threesomes pick up electrons and become tritium atoms. Eventually they join with oxygen, form water molecules and fall to earth in the rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tritium All Around | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...cavities. For food they carry little wafers. One wafer was dunked in a gallon of water. "It swelled up and overflowed. It was fed to guinea pigs and they thrived on it." On another memorable occasion, Dr. Gee saw several little men hop into an undamaged space saucer and make it disappear like a "hallucination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Saucers Flying Upward | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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