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Child of Liberty. Sir Timothy Shelley, Bart., had hoped that his son would get comfortably to Parliament and stand for Reform. Instead, Percy took direct action against what he conceived as oppression, social and personal, by marrying a pretty schoolgirl who didn't want to go back to school. Blunden supplies attractive pictures of this adventure-of Harriet "ready to die of laughter" as the 20-year-old Percy, slim and shrill-voiced, stood on a Dublin balcony hurling moral tracts at selected passersby. A combatant for liberty, Shelley poetized in Queen Mob against kings, priests, commerce, wealth...
...galaxy is full of such "globules" or unborn stars, which look like black patches against the starry background. Professor Bart J. Bok of Harvard found 23 of them silhouetted against a single glowing nebula. They probably weigh much less than the sun, but are several thousand billion miles in diameter...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Mozart's Jupiter Symphony, Béla Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin, Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel. Conductor: Fritz Reiner...
Since Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and world-renowned expert on external galazies--those outside the Milky Way, assumed the duties of director of the Observatory in 1921, the organization has expanded many times over necessitating recently joint directorship. Bart J. Bok, associate professor of Astronomy now serves as the Observatory's associate director under Professor Shapely and Donald II. Mcnzel, professor of astrophysics, has been appointed director for solar research...
...company called Concert Hall Society, Inc. announced that it would turn out only 2,000 copies of its albums. For $105, Concert Hall promised twelve albums of previously unrecorded music by Henry Purcell, Beethoven (Scottish Songs, sung by Balladeer Richard Dyer-Bennet), Brahms, Stravinsky, Béla Bartók and others...