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...DETROIT [TIME, APRIL 13] AND NOT THE ONE AT CINCINNATI? AS AGAINST DETROIT'S 200 SKY-LOVERS' ATTENDANCE WE HAD OVERFLOW ATTENDANCE OF 2,200. DR. SHAPLEY DID NOT LOSE HIS SLIDES IN CINCINNATI AND DID NOT HAVE TO FILL IN HIS STAR LECTURE WITH LECTURE ON ANTS BUT GAVE HIS ANT LECTURE TO SPECIAL AUDIENCE AT QUEEN CITY CLUB LUNCHEON. AT WORLD FAMOUS ROOK-WOOD POTTERY DR. SHAPLEY DESIGNED AND SIGNED ASTRONOMICAL ASH TRAY FOR HIMSELF AND MEMBERS. CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY SAW, ACCORDING TO SIZE, AMERICA'S OLDEST TELESCOPE. IN SHORT, CINCINNATI WITH HALF OF DETROIT...
Some years ago Dr. Shapley momentarily put aside his celestial preoccupations to study the ant, discovered that the hotter an ant was the faster it would run, still keeps a bottle of ants on his desk at Harvard Observatory (TIME, July 29). All this the introducer recalled just as he was beginning to grope uncomfortably for something more to say. Dr. Shapley came to his rescue, began to talk glibly and learnedly about ants. Said he: "When you go out of your way to step on an ant, you insult the order of Nature, for you, a mere social upstart...
...modern German school, came to America from Germany in 1932, not an a political refugee, however, and is at present teaching at the Art Students League in New York. In his works he shown himself with great emphasis to be a social satirist, pacifist, radical, and an ant-Nazist, and before coming to America he was extremely bitter in portraying German life, especially the bourgeoisie class. Since his departure from his native land, however, he has become much milder in his treatment of subjects, perhaps because he has not yet learned American life and customs well enough to bring forth...
USSR's famed Maxim Gorki (ANT-20), world's largest landplane, contains a complete sound cinema projection booth in addition to a broadcasting studio, rotary printing press (capacity: 10,000 papers per hr.), photo-engraving plant, etc. But Maxim Gorki's projector is used on the ground, to show propaganda films in territory where cinemansions are unknown...
...London it is possible to speculate in dried flies. And on at least one occasion there was a disastrous attempt to corner the market in ant eggs. To such a pretty trading pasture at some indeterminate date went greasy Garabed Bishirgian, fresh from the sere uplands of his native Armenia. He took a flier in Turkish carpets. He traded in caviar. He gambled in tin. By the time he set himself up as a stockbroker, his friends declared that his only god was a "rising share." In 1929 he swore allegiance to His Majesty George...