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Obviously autobiographical is Hot News although the exploits recounted are a composite of all Tabloidia. Probably for fear of libel. Author Gauvreau has veiled his characters with flimsy disguises which re quire no seasoned newsmen to penetrate. Himself, as protagonist, he calls Jonathan Peters, his tabloid, The Comet...
...Poirer, Lyon, Oberth and Esnault-Pelterie had had their rocket planes in readiness last week, they might have reached a planet with a short jaunt of only 16 million miles. The tiny asteroid Eros passed closer to the earth than any other body except the moon and an occasional comet ever comes. Men could see it with strong binoculars, scrutinize it with telescopes...
Crest: A green field with a comet rising into a blue sky below a crown with nine points, signifying the rank of count...
...bottle a sample of the fog before it blew away. With nothing to work upon last week (for bereaved relatives delayed, attempts to obtain the bodies of fog-victims for autopsy), scientists could only guess what may have happened. Guesses: "Deadly gases from the tail of a dissipated comet."-Professor Victor Levine of Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. "Germs brought from the Near East by the winds which have carried dust from the Sahara Desert to Europe recently, producing muddy rains."-Colonel Joaquin Enrique Zanetti, Wartime poison gas expert, chemistry professor at Columbia University, Manhattan. "I did not allude...
Poisonous Tail. From a study of photographs taken of Halley's comet at its last appearance in 1910, Dr. N. T. Bobrovnikoff, Perkins Observatory, Ohio Wesleyan, found that the comet really had two tails. One, narrow and brilliant, consisted of carbon monoxide gas, would have killed all life on earth if it had approached too closely. The other tail was curved, consisted of meteoric dust...