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...master of the schooner Chiva Captain Hayden traded through the West Indies. He took the 96-ft. brigantine Florence C. Robinson out to Tahiti. Two years ago, with a partner, he bought the schooner Aldebaran, built for Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (as the yacht Meteor III) before World War I. Hayden's idea was to start a passenger service between Hawaii and Tahiti. On his way to Boston to outfit her, Aldebaran ran into a gale off Cape Hatteras, crept into Charleston, S. C. a virtual wreck...
...Boston newsman who first wrote that big, bronzed Stirling Hayden, with his head of unkempt, golden hair, "ought to be in the movies." For months afterward hard-boiled sailors would shout at him across the water: "Yoo hoo! You ought to be in the movies!" When Hayden lost Aldebaran in Charleston, his friend Larry O'Toole, a Boston artist and member of the crew, remembered the newsman, looked him up, through him got in touch with a Hollywood agent. The agent took some photographs of Hayden to Paramount and showed them to Edward Griffith, who was at that moment...
...Charles Greeley Abbot, of the Smithsonian Institution who last Spring made scientific history with his measurements of the sun's heat (TIME, May 5), has now, from the Mt. Wilson observatory, analyzed the heat of nine other great stars-Rigel, Vega, Sirius, Procyon, Capella, Aldebaran, Betelgeuse, Alpha Herculis, Beta Pegasi. He employs the Nichols radiometer, a delicate instrument worked by heat, like the little vanes revolved by sunlight in optician's windows. The stars' light is broken up by the spectroscope into their respective spectra or color bands, the heat in the different parts of which...
Immediately after sundown any clear night there apppears in the southwestern sky near the horizon a star of the first magnitude and of the brilliancy of Aldebaran. This is Beta Ceti, formerly on the outermost reaches of the known stellar system, a second magnitude star of the constellation of the Whale. Eighty years ago it suddenly flared up to double its brightness, a fact that our astronomers have just learned (since Beta Ceti is 80 light-years away...
...meeting of the 1913 Senior Dormitory Committee held last evening, the following assignments of rooms in the four present Senior Dormitories were made: "The Twelve Bums," Stoughton 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16; "Aldebaran," Stoughton 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8; "Spotlight Steve," Hollis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8; "Unk Wunks," Stoughton 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32; "Mrs. Pankhurst's Pets," Hollis 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32; "Dozen Doughnuts," Hollis 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24; "Beef Eaters," Holworthy 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; "Epidotes," Stoughton...