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...include a "tender, searching" volume titled Love Poems. The poetess: Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, 31, whose first published work follows her renown as amateur artist, professional actress (The Time of Your Life-TIME, Jan. 31), and the estranged wife of mellowing (73) Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Explaining the poetry's origin, Gloria's publisher said: "She filled her diary with poetry-her own poignant expression of a mood, the lonely torture of young love, the ecstasy of fulfillment-all intensely personal." No advance peeks at the verses were permitted, but Gloria herself offered a hint of their content...
After laboratory tests which took two weeks to complete, the Examiner reached a verdict of suicide by poisoning. Farnsworth said that the origin of the poison was undetermined...
...detailed, index-type notes of what he read. He took his notes on tiny scraps of paper, often not marking them, and stuffed them indiscriminately into a black folding bag. Today, he can pull that same bag out of a bottom drawer of his filing cabinet and identify the origin of the miscellaneous notes from the different types of paper used in different countries. For years these same notes have been a huge index to hundreds of foreign manuscripts. Wolfson reads them, and when he finds a suggestion of relevant material he writes to Europe for a photostat...
...relentless search for knowledge has not only outstripped the senses, it has transgressed both time and space. Geochemist Claire Patterson has pushed back the origin of the earth to 4.5 billion years, and A.E.J. Engel. Heinz Lowenstam and Samuel Epstein described what the earth's temperatures and atmosphere were millennia ago. At the same time, the astronomers have probed millions of light-years farther out in space. Seth B. Nicholson discovered three more satellites to Jupiter; Walter Baade discovered a whole new family of stars...
...Peking man, the first actual remains of paleolithic man found in Asia; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Father Teilhard regarded the Peking man as an important link between the anthropoids and modern man, saw no contradiction between Roman Catholic doctrine and scientific evidence of man's animal origin. "The significant fact about man," he said, "is the coming of thought with and through...