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...greatest discoveries in human history: the Law of Gravitation, the system of mathematics called calculus, and the fact that white light is a composite of colored light. But he did not publish his Principia until two decades later, and then only at the urging of Halley, the comet man. After finishing the Principia, Newton almost lost his mind, but recovered and retained his faculties until he died at 85. But for the. last 40 years of his life his contributions to physics and mathematics were almost...
What stormy Cinemactress Bette Davis likes better than anything else are cinema roles she can get her claws into. Last week Bette took a disdainful look at the script of Author Faith Baldwin's Comet Over Broadway, said it reminded her of weak tea, flatly refused to play in it.*Promptly her studio, Warner Bros., suspended her, cut off her $3,500-a-week salary for the six weeks it may take to find her another picture. Commented Bette, whose rebellion against Warners nearly two years ago wound up in the British courts: "I feel we will have legal...
Last November New Zealand-born Arthur Edmund Clouston, who tests airplanes for Britain's Royal Air Force, flew from England to South Africa in 45 hours, an all-time record. Last week Flying Officer Clouston, in a four-year-old De Havilland Comet, flew from Port Darwin, Australia to Croydon, England in three days, 20 hours. In so doing he lopped 28 hours off the previous best time, established by Cathcart Jones and the late Kenneth Waller...
Some hundreds or thousands of years before Christopher Columbus, a huge cluster of metallic meteorites-or a small comet-400 or 500 ft. in diameter and weighing millions of tons, entered the Earth's atmosphere over northeastern Canada, plunged southward in a flaming, thundering arc over the Dakotas and Colorado, no doubt scaring thousands of savages almost out of their wits. Coming to Earth in northern Arizona, the monstrous cluster plunged into the desert, converted underground water into steam, hurled huge gobs of earth and stone skyward to fall back into the crater. The main body of the meteorite...
...Knight, now cadaverous, soulful-looking and 44, has more transport hours and miles to his record than any pilot in the U. S. ¶ One night last week, just after announcing his engagement to a Hampshire typist, Britain's Flying Officer A. E. Clouston, using the De Havilland Comet airplane that won 1934's England-Australia derby, took off from Croydon with Mrs. Betty Kirby-Green, 32-year-old London club hostess, financed by a champagne raffle, speed-bound for the Cape of Good Hope. The weary pair climbed out of their Comet at Capetown...