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Cornfield Observatories. One outstanding amateur astronomer is Leslie Peltier, an Ohio draftsman, whose little observatory stands in his father's cornfield. He is such an able observer that professionals look to him as the No. 1 U.S. comet tailer, and both Harvard and Princeton have lent him instruments. Inspecting the whole sky piece by piece each month, Peltier has discovered seven comets, which are named after...
...Long Island Sound's Larchmont Race Week: Joseph Merrill's Feather, in the International class; Romeyn Ever-dell's Star boat Bolt; Don Peterson's Comet Blue Peter (only boat in the Race Week fleet to take five straight races). Star class's Undertaker-Yachtsman Frank Campbell, too busy to compete in the entire week's races, came to life over the weekend: his Rascal breezed home first in the final day's racing, giving Campbell his tenth straight victory in the weekly Long Island Sound Y.R.A. championship series...
Teresa's rise toward stardom has been without benefit of glamor. Neither prettier nor shapelier than thousands of other American girls, Cinemactress Wright has not got what it takes to become a blonde comet. Thus reduced to brains and ability, she has adamantly refused to trick them out with fake publicity. She also persists in her right to lead a private life. When her boss's head publicity man revealed her engagement to Scriptwriter Niven Busch before she had informed her closest friends, Sam Goldwyn had to take her aside and tell her the facts of Hollywood life...
...rocket bombs, which are said to be as destructive as a large-caliber shell, are slung from the underside of the wings, aimed by pointing planes directly at their targets. Self-propelled, the rockets trail a stream of sparks like the tail of a comet. In London some experts predicted that rocket bombs may soon make dive-bombing obsolete. Reasons: 1) the new weapon's high potential accuracy, which enables planes to bomb with greater success from greater heights; 2) its greater penetrating power-the push of the rocket stream is added to the momentum given to the bomb...
...they are looking for is there, somewhere: a planet as big as Earth, but some 35 times farther from the sun (well beyond reach of the naked eye). Its existence and gravitational pull are postulated by Mount Wilson Observatory's R.S. Richardson to explain why Halley's comet embarrassed astronomers by showing up three days late in 1910. Search for the new planet may take 25 years (like Pluto), or only 18 months (like Neptune)-both of which were postulated by astronomers before telescopes sighted them...