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...Nobel Prize achievement, ten years ago, was devising wave mechanics to reconcile the seeming contradictions in the nature of light. Light unquestionably has a wave motion, yet it obeys the quantum laws as if it were composed of particles or small bundles of energy. Schrödinger imagined a sub-ether filled with ripples too small for detection. He conceived of a "particle" of light as an "area of ripples," a wave-throb that is detectable by instruments...
...Radio Rome once asked: "Who cares about American radio nonsense?" Apparently some Italians do, for the Italian stations are forever burlesquing U.S. broadcasts, Sample: "An American sub named Comfort Station, manned by five men and a lady assistant, Miss Higgins, has sunk the Italian Navy in the Mediterranean. All Italy's aghast...
...patrol boat circled, dropped more charges. Hurt this time, the Jap came up. With its deck guns it blazed away furiously at its attacker. The patrol boat fired back, turned on her searchlight. The little New Zealander was only 150 feet long; nevertheless she pointed her bow at the sub and charged forward...
...Zealander backed away, guns still blazing. Jap soldiers with full packs poured out of the conning tower and tried frantically to unleash life rafts. Again the patrol boat rammed, sheering off one of the sub's hydroplanes. And once again-said the skipper: "This time we climbed clear over her top and rode her piggyback." They got off by giving the engines full astern...
Smoke billowed out from the Jap's hatches. Lashed by the New Zealander's gunfire, the sub limped towards shore. Off Cape Esperance it suddenly went down at the stern. Said the New Zealand skipper: "There she rested on a reef, and she's still there with 30 or 40 feet of her bow in the air pointed towards Tokyo. I ordered the rum broken out for each...