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...Observatory. This evening at 8.30 o'clock there will be a joint meeting of the Association and the Bond Astronomical Club in the New Lecture Hall. Charles W. Elmer, vice-president, will give an illustrated talk on "The Paris Meeting of the International Astronomical Union". Annie J. Cannon, of the Observatory Director, and Campbell will also address the meeting...
...that the stars and the balls of tinfoil we delightedly rolled up would have impressed us much if other leftovers hadn't followed us all through our school days. Cannon on the courthouse lawn; a mail-order catalog soldier-with-bayonet in every public park; red paper poppies for sale in the streets; yearly "Conventions" with men in uniforms bowling down Main Street, slapping each other on the back, singing rowdy songs, drunk at the intersection trying to direct traffic with a cardboard whistle. Later, war movies, R. O. T. C. parades, University Gothic towers with memorial plaques, billboards plastered...
Residents of Addis Ababa were informed that the first air raid (real or for practice) will be announced by three cannon shots. At this the entire populace, some 100,000 black and white souls, are to flee into the environs. When they hear six cannon shots they are to return home. Finding that many foreign correspondents new to Addis Ababa were queasy about the lepers lounging in the streets, His Majesty ordered lepers to "get out and stay...
...California Comet'') McLoughlin, who won his last national championship (doubles) in 1914, has given up tennis for golf which he plays in the low 70's. Last week, photographers found him giving pointers to his red-headed son Maurice Jr., 16, on his famed ''cannon-ball'' serve which revolutionized tennis...
...Katz kept on working. Under the cheesecloth a blind, muscular youth in rowing trunks took shape. The youth's left arm stretched toward the pensive goddess, who turned out to be the Mother of Compassion. His right arm faded into a scene of cruelty and destruction: machine gunners, cannon, the ogre Greed. Most gruesome bit of all was the Demon of Hate, also bisexual, slashing a man's throat...