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There is a very powerful, very penetrating ray which reaches earth from space. Dr. Millikan recognized this ray ten years ago and called it the cosmic ray. He found that it penetrated 50 ft. of lead, 200 ft. of water. Last year Professor Auguste Piccard, cruising into the stratosphere ten miles above earth, found evidence of the same ray (TIME, June 8). Also last year Professor Arthur Holly Compton found traces of them atop the Rocky Mountains and the Alps...
While Professor Compton is having a high time abroad, Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, president of the American Physical Society and director of Philadelphia's Bartol Research Foundation, will take to the top of Mount Washington or Pike's Peak a cosmic ray "telescope" whose construction he revealed last week. It consists of a lead cylinder. At each end is a hollow steel sphere filled with nitrogen compressed
From 1915 to 1925, Joie Ray was considered the best mile runner in the world. In 1925 he tied Paavo Nurmi for the indoor record?4 min. 12 sec. Three years later he astonished everyone by making good his boast to become a marathon runner. He was on the U. S. Olympic team in 1928. Since then Ray's achievements have diminished, but not his confidence nor his odd, insistent courage. He competed in C. C. Pyle's second transcontinental footrace, lost a six-day race against a horse in Philadelphia. He tried prizefighting, long-distance roller-skating, driving...
Observers, recalling a career in which Ray's extravagant self-adulation has never deterred him from any form of self-inflicted torture, wondered whether he had really passed the squirrel stage. For his first marathon Ray scorned to train, set off at a fast clip wearing the shoes he used for middle-distance running. Doctors cut off these shoes when the race was over. In them they found evidence of almost super-human endurance?two swollen purple lumps which were Ray's feet, chafed to the bone and caked with blood from broken blisters. Clarence De Mar, spindle-shanked Boston...
...Buchmanism" to a dubious press), The Groups held large house parties in Cape Town. South Africa two years ago and in Oxford last summer. In Manhattan, The Groups influence emanates from Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church. Their activities?personal evangelism, weekly meetings in the parish house?are led by Rev. Ray Foote Purdy, onetime Princeton Y. M. C. A. secretary, and Calvary's Rev. Samuel Moor Shoemaker Jr., who gave a demonstration of "primitive Christian practice" for the bishops of the 50th-triennial Episcopal convention in Denver last autumn (TIME, Sept...