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...roommates had taken a deep breath at the same time. They're working on a timing plan which will enable them to stay in the room and breathe at the same time. Meanwhile Al Zadnichek (for the first time since he arrived) is happy that he's 180th in our alphabetical listing. He can choose any one of four bunks for his sack-drills...
Broadway last week reached the end of Tobacco Road. After seven and a half years, the 3,180th and last performance of history's longest continuously running drama was signalized by no valedictory speeches or mortuary effects. But in the third row sat slight, beaming Francis De Valiant, who was seeing the play for the 34th time and is, symbolically enough, advertising director of Fairchild Sons, Inc., New York undertakers...
...crossing the International Date Line, the eclipse accomplished the feat-not rare for eclipses-of ending the day before it started. It began on Wednesday, finished on Tuesday. Since it crossed the Equator twice and also the 180th meridian, it entered four hemispheres. Most curious of all, although until this week there had been no seven-minute-plus eclipse in 1,200 years, there will be two more of them in the 20th Century-one in Ceylon, Siam and the Philippines in 1955, the other in South America and Africa in 1973. The U. S., however, will get only...
Four times a year out in the Pacific Ocean, near the 180th Meridian, TIME goes regularly to Midway Island, when the little cable ship Dickinson journeys there with supplies for the cable station...
President Conant was among nine men who were yesterday awarded honorary degrees by Columbia University at its 180th annual Commencement Exercises. He was given an honorary degree of Doctor of Science, together with Ernest William Brown, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Yale...