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Died. Dr. Edwin Brant Frost, 68, famed blind astronomer, longtime director of the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wis., editor for 32 years of The Astrophysical Journal; of peritonitis following a gallstones operation; in Chicago. Dr. Frost's greatest achievements were in the mechanics of stargazing, in spectroscopic technique whereby are calculated the diameters, masses, densities, speeds and directions of stars. During his lifetime and partly through his labors, the known cosmos multiplied from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of heavenly bodies...
...Molly Brant (Katherine DeMille) is Ace's onetime sweetheart, who dislikes Ruby for occupying her lover's attention and is later saved by Ruby and the Kid from a fire started by Ace in the hope of destroying "Sensation House" and burning Molly alive...
Cecil DeMille took Katherine DeMille, who plays Molly Brant in the West picture, out of a Los Angeles orphanage when she was 9. Her father was a Canadian named Edward Lester, killed in one of the Vimy Ridge engagements. Her mother died in a Los Angeles charity hospital. As DeMille's daughter she grew up in his big house on DeMille Road, a real estate development owned by him on a hill overlooking Hollywood. She took the usual scholastic courses that interest girls with money in expensive private schools, dancing, amateur dramatics, etc. She was the brightest girl...
...Hamilton, Ohio, found himself with $40 to invest. Long interested in aviation, he decided to buy 200 shares of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. Year before that company had been launched by his father, Col. Edward Andrew Deeds of National Cash Register, and two dissatisfied Wright Aeronautical Corp. executives- Frederick Brant Rentschler and George Jackson Mead. Pratt & Whitney Aircraft had one small shop at Hartford, Conn, and $1,000,000 worth of debts. On paper its stock was not worth even the 20? per share "Chuck" Deeds had paid...
...James Bond (Philadelphia) lashed out at ''so-called scientists and collectors" who have almost annihilated some species of birds. Dr. Clarence Cottam (U. S. Biological Survey) heightened the birdmen's concern over the decrease in North American waterfowl (see col. 3) by telling them how brant and Canada geese have suffered from the strange disappearance of eel grass during the past three years (TIME...