Word: bartons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Astronomers have suggested that the Star of Bethlehem which guided the wise men to the Child Jesus was a nova or "new star," exploding like famed Nova Herculis of 1934. Last week Professor William Henry Barton Jr. of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, operating the Zeiss projector in the new Hayden Planetarium, ran celestial time backward and showed how the Star might have been a planetary conjunction. In 8 B.C. Saturn, Jupiter and Mars were very close together, as the projector showed on the vault of the Planetarium dome. When the projector was run slowly forward...
...When Curley denied that he had been personally involved in the Newton crash, "Sinkie" held an investigation, brought forth witnesses who said that they had seen His Excellency in the car. On the side, "Sinkie" Weeks is a director of Boston's First National Bank, president of Reed & Barton (silverware), treasurer of Durgin Park & Co. (famed Boston restaurant...
...Colgate's Spartan, white-haired President George Barton Cutten told his students : "The greatest sinners are probably the philanthropists and the doctors. They have done everything they could to keep the unfit. Nature provides immunity to certain diseases by eliminating all those who contract the diseases. Now we have a protected race rather than a resistant race." Of social legislation: "Nothing could threaten the race as seriously as this. It is begging the unfit to be more unfit and inviting the fit to join the ranks of the unfit...
...where he had a two-picture con tract which His Family Tree completes, kept photographers from meeting his train. Reason: six years ago Barton's face was badly scarred in an automobile accident. All pictures of him have to be retouched. Before he acts he uses many layers of grease paint, reshapes his nose with putty. Like all old-line troupers, he tried to take a hand in stage-managing his pictures. This brought on arguments. One day he almost quit because it seemed to him there were not enough chickens around a farmhouse set. Another time he got into...
...Barton has a spasm if anyone puts a hat on the bed or whistles in the dressing room. He never fails to drop coins into blind men's cups. In Hollis, L. I. he has a big house, owns a yacht and three automobiles. His wife is his sole business manager, rehearses and prompts him, takes care of the dogs, carries his spending cash for him in her stocking...