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Selling newspapers in Chicago is a hard-boiled business. To the strong-arm methods of oldtime Chicago circulation managers some historians trace the origin of gangsterism. Famed in Chicago for circulation getting is the name of Annenberg. Max Annenberg was circulation manager of the Patterson-McCormick Tribune, now holds a similar job for the other Patterson-McCormick paper, Manhattan's Daily News. Equally proficient and long employed by Publisher Hearst was Max's brother Moses. Last week, quite unintentionally, Brother Moses made news. Virtually unknown to the world at large, Moe Annenberg has become a "big shot...
MURDER IN BERMUDA - Willoughby Sharp-Kendall ($2). In crimeless Bermuda, a comely girl is stabbed. The astonished police trace the actions of doubtful tourists and a dead man; catch a murderer and a kidnapper...
Working with "coincidence counters" last year, the University of Padova's Professor Bruno Rossi, foremost of Italy's cosmic ray researchers, thought he had snared in his apparatus the trace of a radiation that came neither from outer space nor from earth's radioactive substances. It seemed to Professor Rossi that in darting through sheets of metal the primary cosmic rays gave birth to a secondary radiation of electric particles. Two other physicists got on the scent, found that the secondary particles were generated in the form of showers-like spray from the splash of passing cosmic...
...McKay of Manhattan and H. B. Smith of Jerome, Idaho, suspected drinking water which Oakley residents secured from new wells in the hills. This water contained six parts of fluorine to the million. Well water on outlying farms, where the children with perfect teeth lived, contained only a trace of fluorine. So Oakley at some expense dug new community wells where fluorine measured no more than one-half part to a million. Then parents waited to see how the enamel looked on the second teeth of children who drank the untainted water. In the current Journal of the American Dental...
...American has carried 204,000 passengers, has had one nasty accident. A year ago last week one of its planes vanished in the snowswept Andes with seven passengers, two pilots. No trace of it has been found. Two other lives have been lost, both unnecessarily. On two occasions a Pan-American flying boat in distress alighted on water and, while the occupants were being rescued by another craft, one passenger dropped into...