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...LUTHER ADLER CLIFFORD ODETS...
Died. Dr. Alfred Adler, 67, Viennese psychologist, founder of the school of "individual psychology," originator of the phrase "inferiority complex," longtime professional enemy of Dr. Sigmund Freud, his old teacher; after collapsing in ihe street; in Aberdeen, Scotland...
Upon becoming acting director of Chicago's popular Adler Planetarium, comely Astronomer Maude Bennot, 44. remarked: "There is a field for women in engineering, astronomy and other scientific endeavors. But it is definitely limited- mainly ... in the minds...
...onetime professional musician, Max Adler joined Sears, Roebuck as a buyer of musical merchandise, became vice president before he retired in 1928. He also was stirred by something he saw in Munich-a planetarium. When he gazed at the great Zeiss projector with its twinkling knobs, and at the wheeling panorama of the skies on the vault overhead, he determined that Chicagoans should have access to the same experience, laid out $500,000 for the Adler Planetarium, first in the U. S. Mr. Adler still drops around frequently to see how things are going, is eminently pleased with the planetarium...
Director Fox delivers nine of the 16 weekly lectures at the Adler Planetarium, has related "The Drama of the Heavens" to some 3,000,000 visitors. He was a star footballer at Kansas State College, went to Dartmouth to play more football, study astronomy. There he came to the attention of famed, blind Astronomer Edwin B. Frost, who got him a post at Yerkes Observatory. Fox later became professor of astronomy at Northwestern, spent every clear night at the telescope, slept from 6 a.m. to 11, took a long swim in Lake Michigan before going to afternoon classes...