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...healthy interest-especially in total eclipses of the sun, for during the fleeting moments of totality they get their best view of the sun's prominences, feathery spurts of incandescent gas rising to heights of hundreds of thousands of miles from the solar surface; and of the corona, the sun's pearly outer envelope...
...with wide-slit spectroscopes have been able to see the prominences without benefit of eclipse, and in recent years the prominences have been studied and photographed regularly with spectrohelioscopes and spectroheliographs. Bernard Lyot of France, operating a special telescope from a mountain in the Pyrenees, managed to chart the corona of the uneclipsed sun, and Bell Telephone Laboratories have lately designed an instrument called the "Coronaviser," which sidetracks the light from the body of the sun, then scans the prominences and corona with a television pickup. But nothing equals one of Nature's own blackouts...
...with Joe Connolly, one of Gorty's biggest immediate problems was the struck Herex (now merged with the American). When Gorty sat down with the Newspaper Guild in Chicago last July, he let it be known that he was no Guild-hater. Guildsmen watched him chain-smoke 50? Corona Coronas, called him a "nice guy . . . reasonable . . . calm. "Last week they hoped that Gorty would be the man to settle the longest strike (one year old on Dec. 5) the Guild has ever...
...Blackfoot Indian lad from Montana, he was picked for the role because he photographed well in the New York Daily News as a returning communicant from the New Orleans Eucharistic Congress last year. Martin is a veteran votary of tobacco. But off the set he refuses anything but Corona Coronas...
...fair claim to the title of greatest salesman alive today. Grover Whalen suggested the fair in 1935 and a civil engineer named Joseph Shadgen came through with a historical excuse-the 150th anniversary of Washington's inauguration; Shadgen also suggested the site-a foul ash dump in Corona, L. I. which New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses had long itched to clean up. The original scheme was a fair the size of the Century of Progress. But with the Magnificent Whalen in the driver's seat and a flashy theme, "Building the World of Tomorrow," the budget mushroomed...