In the new age that is just beginning the news of Science will loom larger than ever in our livesso this week meet Dr. Gerald Wendt, the full-time technical adviser of the writers and researchers of our Science news.
A colorful figure he is, tooa stocky, slightly-balding man with a Mephistophelean mustache and imperial (he offered to shave the whiskers off when he came to TIME if we thought them less in keeping with his new career as a journalist than they had been in his former calling as Dean of the School of Chemistry and Physics at Pennsylvania State College).
Twenty years...