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Early in the evening, as he steered his home-made telescope methodically across the western sky, Clarence Friend noted a bright streak disrupting the usually placid constellation Corona. Friend knew that he had spotted a comet, one of the mavericks of the solar system. He also knew what to do about it. Quickly figuring the ascension, declination and magnitude of his find, he rushed the news by time-dated telegram to Harvard University Observatory, the astronomic clearing house for the western hemisphere. The observation was promptly confirmed...
...spring-fever time in the enchanted forest-scene of James Thurber's latest excursion into the world of fantasy. The rabbits tipped their heads, as men tip their hats, "removing them with their paws and putting them back again." A pink comet flashed by, missing the world by inches. The air was full of the tinkling of musical mud, the roar of barking trees, the flight of wingless birds. In fact, everything was just as usual...
When he was just a kid, Roy Beebe decided that illness was unnecessary. He resolved to spend his life hunting for a cureall. In 1910 he saw Halley's comet through a homemade telescope and decided that human ailments are caused by static. He had quit school after the fourth grade and thus had no scientific prejudices. It was obvious to him that cosmic rays would clean static out of the human system and thus end all ills...
...into some censor trouble. When he cabled instructions to Harvard's South African Observatory to "shoot nightly using whole battery" (meaning: watch Nova Puppis nightly with all telescopes), censors ordered him to mend his language. His most troublesome message was one announcing the discovery of Diamaca's Comet. Diamaca, a Rumanian amateur, cabled his news to Harvard by way of Denmark and Switzerland. A U.S. Navy officer promptly called on Professor Shapley. What, the Navy wanted to know, was the meaning of the last two words in the cable: "Popovici Stroemgren." After a long, exhausting grilling. Professor Shapley...
Random Hits. Witnesses who saw the V-2 falling at night said it looked like a "falling star" or "the tail of a comet." By day, it looked like "a flying telegraph pole." Louder than V1, the rocket explosion could be heard for 20 miles...