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...Riverside Heights, N. J., Thomas Bart, his wife and two sons went to the cellar to spray sandfleas. Spontaneous combustion ignited the insecticide, blew the roof off the house, knocked in one wall, causing the first floor to cave in. The Barts were all seriously injured...
...Bart returns to his Philadelphia home after years of musical study in Paris. "There it had been whispered he would win the Prix de Rome. And then, in an instant he had lost it." A little Jew walks off with the prize, and when the two have become "confidentially drunk together," the Jew says, "Do you know what is the matter with your music? Nothing has ever happened...
...Bart comes home, and things happen to him. It is not a new theme, but in "Huntsman in the Sky" it attains new significance as the story of Bart Garrison is unfolded. Elaine he cannot love, Anne he does not. Conflicts of self and surroundings almost discourage him; little by little he downs them, and produces his music in the end. It is and novel of conflict, treated with sympathy and imagination...
...Prohibition news. Charges were made that the U. S. Customs service at New York was lax and incompetent. The Pratt champagne case was cited as proof. The yeast behind the bubbling was, of course, Politics. Against Mr. Pratt were these undenied charges: He had arranged to pay the Go-Bart Co. of New York $14,000 to smuggle in $25,000 worth of champagne purchased in France. The U. S. agent for the champagne was Count Maxence de Polignac, member of one of France's oldest noble families who owns the Pommery & Greno caves at Rheims. (The Count, already...
...Bart J. Bok, of Kapteyn Astronomical Laboratory in Groningen, Holland, has joined the Observatory staff for one year to carry out researches in spectrophotometry and stellar statistics. Dr. Leon Hufnagel, of Poland, has returned to the Harvard Observatory for a few months to continue his astrophysical researches. Dr. A. Pannekoek, director of the Astronomical Institute of the University of Amsterdam, visited the Harvard Observatory for a few days in October in the interest of his researches on the structure of the Milky...