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...better guidance, the research division of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, has spent three years in developing a device by which the pilot may see his signals. Known as the visual radio range beacon, the invention won public notice last autumn when Lieut. James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle made his famed blind flight at Mitchel Field, L. I. (TIME...
...Harvard professors will take part in the dinner conference of the Massachusetts Council for the Abolition of the Death Penalty to be held a week from today at 46 Beacon Street, in Boston...
...great personal magnetism-the kind that makes female hearts beat fast at every concert, although his matronly-looking wife is always present, sitting well back on the right. Surest sign of his Boston success is the fact that he has been admitted to the Somerset Club, a Beacon Hill institution so exclusive that little Brahmins are usually registered for it immediately after birth...
...Planet, Percival Lowell s wife, who still lives in Beacon Street. Boston, last week suggested Percival. She rejected Lowell as being fixed to too many notable institutions?the Lowell Observatory, the Lowell Institute, the City of Lowell, etc. etc. Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard Observatory, suggested Cronos, son of Uranus and father ot Zeus Astrologers recommended variously I sis, Vulcan, Lilith.* Choice lies with the Lowell Observatory...
...Taft Beacon. In memory of William Howard Taft, though he never flew, Cincinnatians last week resolved to raise $20,000 by popular subscription and erect a beacon to guide airmen into Lunken Airport...