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Listening to what his assistants saw was Director Edwin Brant Frost of the Yerkes Observatory. His years of looking through telescopes are over; his sight, after having served him with distinction, fails. But Mars is etched in his memory and he discussed the perennial question of Martian inhabitants. "We are agnostics on Mars up here," he said, but obliged newsgatherers with an idea of the characteristics a Martian being would have to have to live: a hide thick enough to Stand temperature ranging 150 Fahrenheit between noon and midnight; ability to migrate from 60° North Latitude...
...military service with the French Army. His parents, long divorced, found one common point of reunion ?their mutual desire to keep him as far away from the front as possible? a desire in which they were aided and abetted by Julia Campton's second husband, the millionaire Mr. Brant, who idolized George. John Campton had become a famous portrait-painter? Julia, as Mrs. Brant, had at last attained the riches and social success she craved? but what reality life possessed for each of them was bound up with George...
...front, was wounded, recuperated, went back, was killed. For John Campton that seemed at first to end things completely. Later the realization came that this much was true? that in spite of circumstance and accident, at least the boy, when he lived, had been completely his? Julia, Mr. Brant, the others, had at best had only a reflection of him. He, his father, had had the reality...
...Antwerp which gave Rubens his two beautiful wives, Isabella Brant and Helena Fourment; and, although Rubens' male line is extinct, more than 100 great families of Belgium and the rest of Europe claim descent from him on the distaff side...
...Association to be held in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel tomorrow night, when Orville Wright, dean of American aviation, will be the guest of honor. Plans of the association for next year, and its officers, will be announced at this meeting. Among the guests present will be Colonel G. C. Brant, Director of the Army Service in the New York district, and Colonel Moose, commanding officer at Mitchell Field, who is to be in direct charge of the race...