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...undersigned painters reject the monster national exhibition to be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art next December . . . The choice of jurors . . . does not warrant any hope that a just proportion of advanced art will be included. We draw to the attention of these gentlemen the historical fact that, for roughly a hundred years, only advanced art has made any consequential contribution to civilization...
...them keep their "sense of guilt" about the destruction wrought by their little monster. More such feeling and less of that on how fast can we race to obliteration may give the good doctor a longer time in which to indulge his shortsightedness...
...chance any more; the atom-smashers are laying for them all over the place. Newest and most powerful of the smashers is Columbia University's cyclotron at Nevis, an estate at Irvington-on-Hudson that once belonged to James (son of Alexander) Hamilton. The 2,500-ton monster generates a beam of protons with 380 million electron volts of energy. Such voltage is too powerful for mere atom-smashing, which is considered scientific child's play nowadays. The Nevis machine was designed for probing deeper secrets of matter...
...Better Missiles. The biggest ram jet tested so far is 20 inches in diameter, but bigger ones are on the way. Exact details are a military secret, but Wright engineers are already talking about a monster (probably no bigger than an automobile) that will develop 75,000 h.p.-about one-third as much as the Queen Mary...
...middlebrow Atlantic Monthly, the highbrows' lowbrow Cartoonist Al Capp confessed last week to a secret ambition-"to get published in something that won't be used to wrap fish in the next morning. And so, the other day, I was Writing a book." Its title: I Remember Monster. ("The first part" explained Al "is a memoir of my early days as assistant to a well-known cartoonist.") Under its tomfoolishness, Capp's article in the February issue of the Atlantic (cover by Capp) was a perceptive essay on Charlie Chaplin...