Word: comets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...star-snatching, which prompted Variety to call CBS "Paley's Comet," is a one-man triumph for dapper William S. Paley, 47. Born in Chicago and educated at the University of Pennsylvania, Paley was doing all right (vice president in charge of advertising) in his family's Congress Cigar Co. when he decided there was money in radio. Impressed because radio plugs boosted his La Palina cigar sales by 150%, in 1928 he bought control of CBS for $300,000. Since he took charge, the network has grown from 20 stations...
...named James Mangan announced that he had founded a new "sovereign power . . . known as the nation of Celestial Space." He presented a fancy document to the Cook County Recorder, staking out a claim to "space in all directions . . . specifically exempting . . . every celestial body, whether star, planet, satellite or comet . . ." Then he debated selling chunks of space as big as the earth, for a dollar each...
...Personal Secretary Matthew Connelly, who arrived to spend a few days with the boss. Sheets, shorts, undershirts and pants were strung across a street on the Navy's Key West submarine base. The Negro girls of Douglass High School, dressed in gym suits, and Walter's Comet Key West Band turned out for a parade...
Discovery by the Harvard Observatory in South Africa of the second new comet within a few weeks was reported yesterday by Professor Harlow Shapley...
Shapley stated that a telegram from the South African station credited M.J. Bester with making the discovery According to the cablegram from J. S. Paraskevopoulos, superintendent of the Observatory location of the new comet is seven hours, 37 minutes and its declination is 75 degrees south. Its magnitude is 7.5 making it visible through a telescope...