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Harvard's astronomical observers admitted last night that they are unable to find Gale's comet...
...policed Flint during the General Motors Sit-Down, planted themselves on their armory steps, refused to budge until their captain handed them each a $5 bill from the troop's athletic fund. When his 40 employes sat down, President Louis N. Kapp of Chicago's Comet Model Airplane Co. got out his fiddle, made it a party. In many cases the Sit-Down was a craze like marathon dancing or miniature golf. But it was also a grim and growing Problem, which Congress last week found itself unable longer to ignore...
Feeling death upon him at last, he hears that a comet has appeared...
...There was a comet when Caesar died," he recalls. The comet turns out to be only a meteor. "We shall have to die without a comet," muses Napoleon Bonaparte. The play ends with Marchand reading to him from the wars of Hannibal...
This week, however, the Peltier comet continued to approach Earth. When first discovered it was only ten degrees from the North Star. Since then it has swung past the constellations of Cepheus and Cassiopeia in its elliptical path around the Sun. At its closest approach on Aug. 4, it will be in the constellation Aquarius, halfway from horizon to zenith in the southeastern sky. It will then be 15,800,000 mi. from Earth. Observers equipped with good field glasses or small telescopes (8-power or better) will have a fine view of the tail driven off from the comet...