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...Percival Lowell did not "discover" Pluto. He figured out that a ninth planet must exist and predicted where it would be, in 1914. He died in 1916. In 1930 the planet was discovered, right where Lowell had said. His brother, in his biography of Percival, calls it "the planet he found but never...
...Inch & Brothers. For long-term relief the hope lay in Big Inch and other lines like it. Big Inch, when finished, will be an engineering and construction monument. It will tunnel 1,400 miles under eight states and 20 rivers and surmount the rolling Alleghenies. Now building in the South is an extension of Big Inch's smaller (maximum 11 inch) brother, the Plantation Line, which by June will stretch from Baton Rouge to Richmond. Oilmen figure that still another such line would be needed if both war and civilian needs are to be fulfilled...
Into the Army in Manhattan went Prince Gaëtan de Bourbon-Parme, 37-year-old brother of former Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary, week after the induction of his nephews (Archdukes) Felix and Charles Ludwig. The nephews will probably wind up in the much-criticized battalion of Austrian nationals promoted by brother Pretender Otto, but Uncle Gaëtan, a descendant of Louis XIV, is a French citizen and ineligible...
...post-war scene. His Make This the Last War attempts to provide a plan-of-life not only for these desperate multitudes but for people the world over. Son of the late Willard Straight (founder of The New Republic, of which Author Straight is an editor) and brother of R.A.F. Acting Air Commodore Whitney Willard Straight, Author Straight took a triple-first degree in economics at Cambridge University, worked in the State Department as economist of the European Division. Now 26, he is awaiting induction as an aviation cadet in the U.S. Air Corps...
...hopes for the other clubs in the League are not measurably brightened by this news, for earlier in the season, Jack Riley, originally starting wing, left for the Army, and his shoes were more than capably filled by his brother Bill. Dartmouth's Coach Jermiah can be expected to fill Rondeau's spot with another top-flight puckster until Rondeau's return...