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...nothing like a little incisive satire (of which Capp is an accomplished master) for keeping the blatant demagogues under control. Senator Jack S. Phogbound is a type not peculiar to the U.S.A. We are all acquainted with a few Jack S.s, and in some cases a glance in the mirror may reveal the existence of a wholly unsuspected addition to the number...
...friends confessed in a monograph for the show. "This was especially true during her last years in Rome, where she did . . . one very remarkable portrait of herself." Said one Providence critic after studying the portrait last week: "It is the face of a woman who, looking in a mirror, sees Death...
Good news, long delayed, came from the California Institute of Technology last week. The 200-inch mirror for the mighty telescope at Mt. Palomar was finally pronounced finished. Grinding and polishing began in 1938, was stopped in wartime, and resumed at the end of 1945. Now the big glass disc, yellowish blue and slightly murky like an old Pyrex dish, is a paraboloid perfect within two millionths of an inch...
Since last July the opticians, directed by tall, spindly Dr. John A. Anderson, have been making the final tests. They proved that the great mirror will allow the pinpoint image of a star to diffuse into a spot whose diameter is equivalent to less than .07 seconds of arc. Such accuracy is better than necessary, since the normal turbulence of the atmosphere causes seven times as much distortion...
...cuts: mimeographed commercial lecture notes (Fybate Notes) sell like Books-of-the-Month on Berkeley's campus. California does its best to break up, and to personalize, the courses. At U.C.L.A., one professor of history props up a seating chart of his 150 students next to his shaving mirror until he commits it to memory. But the university recognizes its limitations. Says popular Chemistry Professor Joel Hildebrand: "The big institution must be content to be a place of opportunity rather than a place of compulsion. It is no place for a student of unformed character and uncertain purpose...