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...Christmas eve, when normal people are hanging stockings and trimming trees, Harvard's astronomical wise men will be out in the cold wind following a new star in a new way. They will be following Comet Cunningham with the cross wires of Harvard's six best and biggest photographic telescopes at the Oak Ridge Station of the Observatory in Harvard--Harvard, Massachusetts, not Harvard University...

Author: By John C. Cobb nd, | Title: Comet Cunningham Climaxes Trip Through Skies Christmas Night | 12/20/1940 | See Source »

Harvard's is the only observatory conducting an extensive study of Comet Cunningham, which was discovered here by Leland E. Cunningham this fall. Cunningham himself is organizing the observation program in collaboration with Fletcher Watson, executive secretary of the Observatory...

Author: By John C. Cobb nd, | Title: Comet Cunningham Climaxes Trip Through Skies Christmas Night | 12/20/1940 | See Source »

...spindizzy can buy a ready-made car like the Hiller Comet, cheapest on the market, for $28 (engine & all). Or he may pay up to $175 for a custom-made job. But his little racer, under the rules of the newly organized American Miniature Racing Car Association, cannot be more than 24 inches long. The average miniature is 16 inches long, weighs seven pounds, is made of aluminum castings painted according to its owner's whim. Its tiny, two-cycle motor, wide open, can turn over up to 25,000 revolutions a minute. For fuel, some owners have their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spindizzies | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...astronomical meeting at Wellesley, Mass., Dr. Kuiper pictured star material rushing from the larger of the Beta Lyrae pair into the smaller at speeds around 200 miles per second-so fast that some of it is hurled clear beyond the small star to form a tail like a comet's. As the stars revolve the tail is dragged around behind them, like a lagging feather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Siamese Stars | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

During the big-time grass-court tournaments this summer, solemn, steady Don McNeill, an honor student at Kenyon College, was overshadowed by long-legged, happy-go-lucky Frank Kovacs, a California comet whose spectacular shots and silly monkeyshines made him a favorite with the galleries. But last week, in the National Singles at Forest Hills, L. I., Don McNeill came into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King Don II | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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