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Town Topics is brazen indeed in its comments-fawning or abusive-concern-ing socialites or would-be socialites. But it is Tatler (merged last year with Club Fellow & Washington Mirror-TIME. April 21, 1930) which publishes the ruthless list of debutante ratings whose author. "Audacious," was revealed last week as Editor Schemm. The grades in the list are "A," "B," "C," "D" and a dreadful, all-inclusive "E-Z." Specimen comments from the current issue...
...sizzling surface. Last week Chemist Robert Browning Sosman of U. S. Steel Corp., announced that by extending the principle of the magnifying glass he was able to capture half of the sun's 6,000º heat. With a big specially-built heliostat (reflector) he reflected sunlight on a focusing mirror; the mirror concentrated the rays, focused them on a piece of zirconium oxide, which melts at 1960º C. The zirconium oxide was liquefied. Chemist Sosman estimated he had produced a temperature of 3,000º...
...received on Saturday a reflecting mirror of 60 inches diameter for use in the telescope now being built for us. We will use this reflector, which was sent by Harlan T. Stetson, of the Ohio Methodist University, and which is worth about $60,000, until the new one is ready for installation, which will not be till 1933. The telescope when complete will be the most powerful in the East...
This is not altogether a bad idea, for we find in some of the plays the mirror help up to the modern statesman's nature, sometimes terribly close to the truth, sometimes grotesquely like one's reflection in a hall of mirrors. Indeed, we should not be surprised to learn that some of our Western statesmen had already made an industrious study of Shakespeare and borrowed, deliberately or unconsciously, some of the remarkable economic notions so eloquently preached by Jack Cade, as reported in the second part of King Henry the Sixth, Vowing that there should be reform...
Last week no less a personage than Clinton Wallace Gilbert, Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post, came forward for the Lindbergh child to deny this rumor. In the column ("Daily Mirror of Washington") which he usually devotes to the politically great of the land, Pundit Gilbert wrote with unaccustomed feeling and excitement...