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When the moon eclipsed the sun last week and whipped a band of shadow across Asia (TIME, June 22), the foremost U. S. specialist on solar radiation, Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, was in Rochester, N. Y. showing members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science a cartoon of himself. The sketch: big-mustached, ponderous Dr. Abbot sitting atop California's Mount Wilson with an "Abbot sun and moon measurer," while a little bear points to a Hollywood constellation of stars among which a chunky one represents Mae West...
...moved into the Indoor Athletic Building: 1. Harvard Glee Club Egbnert W. Fisher '36, Accompanist Irving G. Fine '37, Accompanist Tutti Venite Armati Castoldi Glorious Apollo Webbe O Du Eselhafter Martin (Canon) Mozart Then Round About the Starry Throne Handel 2. Songs Miguel Sereque, Jr. The Victor Sanderson The Abbot of Derry Weaver 3. The Pierian Sodality of 1808 Harvard University Orchestra Malcom H. Holmes. Conducter Valse Triste Sibelius Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breve" De Falla 4. Harvard Glee Club Praestat Hoc Nobles Chadwick O Die Frauen Brahms Der Gang Zum Liebchen Brahms Choruses from Patience Sullivan Fair Harvard...
...planners think of Bolshevism's executors pungently appeared last week at a Congress of Master Builders in the Kremlin with Dictator Joseph Stalin and most other Soviet bigwigs present. To make the opening speech Russia's cloistered priesthood of planners, the Gosplan, sent their economic abbot, Comrade Valerian Ivanovich Mezhlauk, chairman of the State Planning Commission...
...Abbot's Weather. When the National Academy met at Cambridge two years ago Charles Greeley Abbot, gaunt, assiduous secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and famed solar researcher, affirmed his belief, after long study, that weather on Earth tends to repeat itself in cycles of 23 years. Backing this up last week he showed the academicians how the 23-year cycle could be traced in the water levels of the Great Lakes, in yearly growth rings on trees, in the catch of codfish and mackerel, in deposits of clay laid down by Pleistocene glaciers. On the basis of his cycle...
...Crimson will use Abbot Sherwood and Gregory Jameson in the 440-yard free style against Specht and Essex...