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...meteorites are worth money as scientific exhibits. Harvey Harlow Nininger of Denver, indefatigable meteorite-chaser-and-broker, usually pays a rate of $1 per pound for these fragments, sometimes more for unusually fine specimens (TIME, July 5, 1937). Dr. Nininger was vacationing in New England last week, apparently biding his time until the lost pallasite was actually found. But anybody could figure that at his base rate the meteorite would bring...
...Chaser (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Remake of a 1933 exposé of ambulance-chasing lawyers-notable, if at all, for Lewis Stone's performance as the shyster hero's whiskey-toping doctor...
Metcalf disclosed that when he ar- rived, one book in every ten dominated was "not on the shelf," but that since he had appointed a special chaser is handle these "N. O. S." cases, only one book in forty could not be located when asked for. Even this was inefficient, he declared, and for that reason he did not favor more general use of the stacks...
...TIME, Nov. 1), things looked bad for Colonel de Basil's toe-dancers. Temperamental Massine had always felt that de Basil cramped his style, had long awaited a chance to launch a company all his own. The chance came when Chicago's art-conscious celebrity-chaser. Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed, steered him toward Yeast Tycoon Julius Fleischmann, who had cherished a secret passion to patronize the arts. Upshot was the organization of the World-Art group with backing ($500,000) by Fleischmann, Harold F. McCormick and other Midwest socialites. De Basil lost not only his principal working choreographer...
...Harvey Harlow Nininger has made Denver the meteorite capital of the U. S. Curator of meteorites at Colorado Museum of Natural History, professor of geology and meteoritics at University of Denver, he is the most persistent and energetic chaser of meteorites in the land, possessor of the world's largest private meteorite collection and probably the only scientist anywhere who spends all his working time hunting, studying, writing or talking about fragments of the cosmos from outer space. Last week some 800 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science assembled in Denver for their summer meeting...