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Although the comet has net been seen by eye even through the telescope, three photographs, including the discovery one, have given enough material to Whipple so that he can compute accurately how long it takes the comet to describe its elipse around the sun and at what point in the sky the comet will be at any given time...
...complete trip of the comet around the sun takes about seven years and one half and the route shows one of the smallest deviations from a fine circle of any known comet. This fact makes the comet appear very much like an asteroid and it was extremely hard to recognize for this reason...
Fred L. Whipple, instructor in Astronomy, has discovered a new comet and with the help of an assistant has computed its orbit, it was announced at the Observatory yesterday. The comet was discovered by accident on a photographic plate taken with the 16 inch refracting telescope at the Oak Ridge observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts...
...bankers. From the investigation of Dillon. Read's investment trusts (TIME, Oct. 16) he went on to two other topics that have become part of the standard program in investigating banking houses: Tax Evasion, James V. Forrestal. Dillon, Read & Co.'s vice president and a financial comet of the 1920's, admitted that in selling for $892,936 stock which he had bought for $28,539, he had done so through a Canadian holding company, thereby avoiding paying personal income tax on the profits. The Government is now-trying to collect $95,000 on this account. Defaulted...
Anyone who ever saw Herbert Emerson ("Spud") Manning, 25, make a parachute jump would have predicted violent death for him. His specialty at fairs and air meets was the delayed opening. From a plane three miles high he would plummet down, trailing flour like a comet's tail, until within 1,000 ft. of the ground, then jerk his 'chute open. His most famed jump occurred a year ago in California when he fell 16,000 ft., jerked his ripcord at 500 ft., landed in an orange tree. An English jumper beat that record for altitude (he dropped...