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...modern business of optical instruments is heavily indebted to the work of a painstaking German scientist, Carl Zeiss, who nearly a century ago in the little town of Jena tried to make good microscopes. Largely because of that fact a Federal grand jury in Manhattan last week handed down a stiff anti-trust indictment...
...Cyclops (Paramount) recounts, with a slight flavor of sadism, what goes on when a shave-pate, myopic, six-foot-two scientist (Albert Dekker) acquires an up-to-date laboratory in the Amazon jungles and a mania for reducing human beings (by radium treatment) to a height of some 13 inches. Victims of this scientific zeal are Dr. Cyclops' nosy colleagues (Janice Logan, Thomas Coley, Charles Halton, Victor Kilian...
...great Finnish scientist, Kaarlo Valkonen, played by Alfred Lunt, can see his home broken up in the war, his son killed, and his country going down in defeat, and still say that the booming of the guns is the death rattle, not of civilization, but of the forces of evil. He is a brain specialist, and he sees that the ultimate defenses of civilization are not the pill-boxes of the Mannerheim and Maginot Lines, but the tissues of the human brain, and he thinks they are still in good order, even though they are taking a terrific battering...
...spent much time with him in Jerusalem. He is a careful and conservative scientist. He was aghast at the publicity which had been given to the work he had been doing in his laboratory. There was no scientist who visited him who was more restrained in his opinion as to his results than...
Lionel S. Marks Gordon Mckay professor of Mechanical Engineering, who will retire September 1, is not only a noted scientist, but has become a mountain climber, a great traveller, and an intimate of such figures as John Masefield, Thomas Hardy, and Julian Huxley...