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Edward G. Robinson, whose portrait of German Scientist Ehrlich entrenched him in the field of cinema biography, growls pleasantly through Reuter's tribulations. He has to buck the artistic irresponsibility of his poet-partner Max (Eddie Albert) and the indifference of rubber-skinned bankers before he proves that pigeons can pack the news from Brussels to Aachen quicker than the fleetest stagecoach...
...signature, omitted by request, is that of a distinguished scientist in a distinguished university...
Clarence Dykstra was generally considered a good choice. A political scientist who actually gives some meaning to that vague term, he earned his greatest distinction as an administrator. As city manager he cleaned up Cincinnati, got national fame with his cool, able handling of a crisis when the Ohio River flooded part of the city in 1937. He took over the troubled University of Wisconsin after the late Dr. Glenn Frank was ousted, did a good job there as well. That change cost him a $10,000 salary cut (from $25,000 to $15,000). His new job will entail...
...would be even higher if many of the men were not teachers in universities, just getting their careers underway. About a dozen men make $10,000 to $15,000. One of these is a staff artist for Cinemanimator Walt Disney-salary, $12,000. The group includes a physical scientist and a physiologist who are university department heads; a 32-year-old aeronautical engineer who is coordinator of research in a $10,000,000 laboratory; also jazz-band players, ghost writers, radio announcers, a fox farmer, a rare-stamp dealer, a cop. Half of Terman's boys entered professions, with...
Harold Spencer Jones, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., is England's Astronomer Royal. A hardheaded, straight-thinking scientist, who refers to writings of Eddington and Jeans as "romance," he is, ex officio, director of Greenwich Observatory and responsible for Greenwich time's astronomical integrity.* The question he has heard most often in his 50-year career is: Does life exist on other worlds? Astronomer Jones set out to assemble the evidence in the case, published his conclusions last week in Life on Other Worlds (Macmillan...