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...Powell Hubble's collection of nebulae down past the 19th magnitude of brightness, revealed that Harvard's total of discovered but unpublished nebulae in the Northern and Southern hemispheres was 140,000, most of them fainter than the 16th magnitude.* Hot Ants & Hot Stars. Harlow Shapley was born 49 years ago in Nashville, Mo. His mother was one of the Massachusetts Stowells who reached the U. S. in 1640. His father, a teacher, died when Harlow and his brother John were boys. Though there was not much money for their education,† both went to Carthage Academy. After...
...university professor, told George Umbach last year she would marry him. He left for the U. S. to make his fortune, found no job. Last September Ottilie followed him to Manhattan, married him. George got a room in The Bronx by working as a janitor. A child was born, died of malnutrition. Then George lost his janitor's job. Because he was an alien illegally in the U. S., he could not apply for relief. The couple moved to the New Jersey shore of the Hudson River, where they went on starving. They rigged up a tent, pitched...
...Born. To John Jacob Astor III, 22, and the former Ellen Tuck French, 19: a son; in Manhattan. Weight...
Died. Anne Douglas Sedgwick (Mrs. Basil de Selincourt), 62, U. S.-born British novelist (Adrienne Toner, The Little French Girl): in Hampstead, England...
...Born in Fredericia, Denmark and orphaned early, Paul Haakon Longreen was adopted by Christ Nielson Panduoro, a bachelor who had made money in the embroidery business. Christ Panduoro took Paul Haakon to San Francisco, had him study dancing for his health although the boy disliked it. When they returned to Denmark the 9-year-old was put in the Royal Opera Ballet School. The "elevation" (leaps and jumps) at which he is expert today he learned in the rigorous oldtime manner, practicing in heavy harness which when it was removed made him feel more airy. In 1924 Christ Panduoro lost...