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...billiard or pool player or a bowler better than most people can get an understanding of an important physical observation, reported last week by Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, great Indian physicist. Sir Chandrasekhara was scientifically succinct in his announcement. Very few details reached Europe or the Americas. But, according to what he has done in the past and according to the corroborative work of other students, this, simply, is what he said...
...game of pool or billiards or bowling-in-the-alley provides a simple illustration of what this great Indian and his colleagues are saying in the exact phrases of science. Pool is somewhat the best of the three illustrations...
...Beverly Hills, Calif., Lawrence Tibbett Jr,, son of the opera and cinema singer, gave a party, took his friends into the family swimming pool. While the party was in progress, Singer Tibbett telephoned his wife from Manhattan. Suddenly she cried: "Larry's drowning!" Singer Tibbett held the wire through a terrifying 20 min. while the party pulled Larry out of the pool, pressed the water from his lungs, revived him. Then Mrs. Tibbett came back to the telephone and said: "He's all right now, dear...
...Refund. Six months ago the management of Transamerica Corp. decided its shares at $13¼ were undervalued, called upon shareholders to contribute funds for a market pool (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week all the money received (said to be $20,000,000) was returned to stockholders, plus interest at 4%. Surprising was the pool's statement that the money had been kept in a bank, never touched. But it was also gratifying word to the pool's contributors, for last week Transamerica shares were at $7 against the year...
Stroke, R. H. Martin '34; seven, E. L. Millard '31; six, J. Appel '32; five, Eustis Walcott '32; four, R. G. Ames '34; three, G. R. Heath '34; two, T. B. Knowles '34; bow, Beekman Pool '32; cox, F. F. Jones...