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Watchers of the U. S. skies last week reported no comet or other celestial portent. In Manhattan no showers of ticker-tape blossomed from Broadway office windows, no welcoming committee packed the steps of City Hall. No call to nation-wide thanksgiving was sounded by Nicholas Murray ("Nicholas Miraculous") Butler. No overt celebration marked the day with red. Yet many a wide-awake modern-minded citizen knew he had seen literary history pass another milestone. For last week a much-enduring traveler, world-famed but long an outcast, landed safe and sound on U. S. shores. His name was Ulysses...
...same as that led until last week by Albert Sarraut and previously by Edouard Daladier (see p. 17). In the Chautemps Cabinet, M. Sarraut returned to the Naval Ministry he held under Premier Daladier, M. Daladier kept the War Ministry he held under Premier Sarraut and that shaggy-maned comet of the Paris bar, M. Joseph Paul-Boncour, continued to shine as Foreign Minister...
...explosive, moon-faced salesman. Together they ran, in a belligerently unorthodox manner, Grigsby-Grunow Co., makers of Majestic radios and electric iceboxes. Unlike most makers of radios and electric refrigerators, they made money hand over fist. In the clear blue firmament of 1929, Grigsby-Grunow stock was a comet...
...comet will be in the range of cameras under the telescope until February and, because the earth travels around the sun much faster than the comet, we may see it again later after a period when the sun is between us and the comet...
...time comet hunting was a favorite hobby among amateur astronomers and was encouraged to the extent of a $200 bonus for every new discovery. This popular interest was due mostly to the spectacular nature of the larger comets and is not so moved by the discovery of invisible ones to which the field has of late been reduced From the scientific point of view the recording of comets is important so that general laws can be made for a hitherto mysterious dement in the sky. It was once figured that people devoting full time to the search for comets spent...