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...business (insurance, banking, cost accounting) but turned back to the laboratory is Physicist Harvey Brace Lemon of the University of Chicago. A onetime student of the late great Albert Abraham Michelson, now a bustling, stout, pink-faced professor of 54, Lemon tracked down the cause of bands in comet tails, designed the spectrophotometer which bears his name, adapted coconut shell charcoal for gas masks during the War. President Hutchins told him off to design a survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields. Believing that most survey courses were "not worth...
Instead of the 22 entries for the original transatlantic race, only 13 planes from three countries appeared at Istres. Eight were multi-motored bombers from Italy, four were French and the other was a DeHavilland Comet which got in from England just before the deadline. Weather was perfect and for once a long-distance air race was held without fatalities. But if all four French planes had crashed in flames, gloom in Paris after the race could have been no worse, for all the honors went to Italy, which took the first three places and the prize money...
...July 19, bigfooted, popular Pitcher Gomez beat Cleveland for his 13th victory of the season. Superstitious, he believed that the 13th win might be a hard one to add to. A believer in astrology, he regarded the approach of Finsler's Comet with apprehension ("Comets and left-handed pitchers don't go well together"). His mother, of whom he was very fond, lay ill in Rodeo, Calif. Four times he had tried to win his 14th game and failed-twice against Chicago, once against Detroit, once against Philadelphia. He had sped by plane to California for a bedside...
...York Yankees' crack Pitcher Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez, ardent believer in astrology, blamed Finsler's Comet (TIME, Aug. 2) for his failure to win a baseball game in a month. "On July IQ," said sad Pitcher Gomez, "I beat Cleveland for my 13th victory. Then Finsler's Comet began to edge into the picture and I knew right off I was cooked. Comets and left-handed pitchers don't go well together...
...Tiger and Teddy's Comet, two-year-old race horses owned by Ethel V. Mars and Emerson Woodward respectively: $18,000 each, for running a dead heat in the Arlington Futurity, after which judges examined photographs of the finish with a magnifying glass without being able to decide which was ahead; at Arlington Park, near Chicago...