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Honored. Dr. Michael Idvorsky Pupin of Columbia University: with the John Fritz gold medal, top U. S. engineering award: *for his achievements as "scientist, engineer, author and inventor of the tuning of oscillating circuits and the loading of telephone circuits by inductance coils...
...country has lost a great scientist; the Institute its greatest president...
...company of British actors, it retains all the fury its author put into it 44 years ago, acquires a little more in Mr. Loraine's presentation of the breakdown of a paranoiac mind. Its theme: "Love be tween the sexes is Strife." Adolph (Rob ert Loraine), a Swedish scientist, is con fronted with the problem of what to do about a servant girl who has been seduced by a soldier. Says the soldier (Barrie Livesay) : ''How can any man know if he is the father?" This is the germ of the scientist's obsession. His wife (Dorothy Dix) cunningly suggests...
Edison's heritage was that of Protestant Western Reserve. He professed no religion, avowed himself a Free Thinker. A sardonic writer once pictured Edison at the Gates of Heaven. Said the Scientist to St. Peter: "I gave the world . . . good light, cheap light. Is it my fault they used it to ... make a cheap bazaar out of every street? ... I gave them the phonograph, so that every man, woman and child might know the glory of great music. . . . Yet today I am afraid there is less music in the heart and mind of the common man. ... I gave them...
...England's New Statesman & Nation, Scientist Louis Herrman revived and elaborated Author Herbert George Wells's plan for carrying jobless workmen through periods of depression by mildly refrigerating them, hibernating them until society again needs them. The method: Cool the body to about 75° F. Then it would shiver, warm & wake itself up, according to Scientist Herrman. Insulin would inhibit the shivering but cause convulsions. Cooling to 70° would stop the convulsions. Corollaries of the plan: "Hibernation might be prescribed as a perfect cure for a nervous breakdown or any form of neurasthenia. Social historians...