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...statistics presented below have been grouped together under convenient headings, but no attempt to list all occupations has been made. Business 202 (including insurance, advertising, etc.) Undecided 171 Law 116 Medicine 89 Teaching 75 Engineering 34 Miscellaneous 34 (including such diverse pursuits as chemist, physicist, anthropologist, professional tennis instructor, etc.) Banking 30 Journalism, Publishing and Writing 28 Architecture 15 Ministry 9 Diplomacy and Foreign Service 6 Aviation 2 Farming 1 Cinema...
...year ago that he would retire this June as president of Princeton University at the end of 20 years' service, Princeton's board of trustees has sought vainly for a sufficiently distinguished successor. Two months ago University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, Nobel Prize physicist, was reported to have declined the post (TIME, March 21). The Princeton trustees have been meeting fortnightly in an effort to agree on some one else. Last week, their quest still unsuccessful, they chose one of their own number to be acting president. He was Edward Dickinson Duffield, bulky president...
...stage of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall might have been set for Funnyman Joe Cook one evening last week, or it might have been a physicist's laboratory. It was crowded with odd-shaped pieces of apparatus. Wires ran over the floor. Leon Theremin, the Russian who makes music out of radio static, was back again, to demonstrate new elaborations of his stunt...
Goethe as a scientist was crisply eulogized in Weimar by Physicist Max Planck, author of the famed Quantum Theory. Clap, clap went the hands not only of all the foreign diplomats but also of all the rectors of all the German universities, of all the premiers of all the German states except Prussia, of Professors Schreiber of Yale, Woodbridge of Columbia and the Rector of the Academy of Paris at the Sorbonne, Professor Sebastien Charlety...
Last week a committee of five professors started work-Professors Reginald Aldworth Daly, geologist; Percy Williams Bridgman, physicist; Louis Caryl Graton, engineer; Harlow Shapley, astronomer; Donald Hamilton McLaughlin, geologist...