Of current interest: 1,857 Attend Annual ASTM meeting; Morrow new head; 4 awards made

At the 22 formal technical sessions and the several informal sessions and round-table discussions held during the 1949 annual meeting of the American Society for Testing Materials in Atlantic City, N. J., early last summer, upward of 185 papers and reports were presented. This was the 52d annual meeting of the society. The total registration, 1,857, was the second highest in the society´s history, being exceeded only by the 1944 New York meeting.