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...theory. The sun's corona does blaze at approximately 1,000,000° C., they conceded, but who can believe that the enormous heat is caused, as Herr Bueren also insisted, by cosmic particles striking the sun's outer atmosphere? Why shouldn't the same particles bombard the earth and set it glowing? And did Herr Bueren really believe that sunspots are gaping holes in the sun's shell, opening on to a cool black core where plant life changes heat into chemical energy, thus lowering the temperature? Pure nonsense, said the scientists. As for heat...
...secret of Lucy's pregnancy. Plans were laid to tie in the show with the Columbia record of There's a Brand New Baby at Our House and I Love Lucy, both sung by Desi and played by his orchestra. All the pressagents promised to bombard newspapers, magazines and wire services with feature stories. CBS was given a special assignment: "The matter of filming the pregnancy story was so delicate that three clergymen were present to see that everything was in good taste and would offend no one: Rabbi Wolf for the Jewish faith, Monsignor Devlin...
...Beach in Barbados. By the time Bombard met the Guiana-bound Arakaka, the unending calm had almost shattered his morale. But once aboard the ship, he perked up quickly, chattering away happily in French-accented English, delighted to learn that his calculated position was only 20 miles off. He took a fresh-water bath, broke his marine diet by eating an egg and drinking coffee. After an hour and a half, he went back to his raft with some apples and a fresh battery for his radio. Passengers watched and waved until the raft dwindled to a speck...
...wind blew up soon after Bombard left the Arakaka, and the rest of the voyage was, comparatively speaking, a breeze. For two weeks more he sailed alone. Then he met a small Dutch steamer, spent half an hour aboard. Early one morning last week, 63 days out of the Canaries, he spotted a light flashing ahead. Daylight revealed a brown fishing beach between two weathered, grey cliffs. Bombard had reached Stroud's Bay in the British West Indian island of Barbados. Within a few hours, he sat down to a hearty landsman's meal of grapefruit, bacon & eggs...
...Bombard felt that he had proved his point. "It was wonderful, terrible and interesting," he said, "but I never want to eat fish again...