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...issue of March 13, under the heading People on p. 62, TIME implied that the Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow appeared before an English court & renounced the custody of her young son to ensure her Danish divorce going through...
...order of the English High Court of Justice had nothing to do with the divorce question, and merely confirmed the custody provisions of the Danish separation agreement, whereby the Countess has the custody of her son, Lance, for nine months each year until he is six years of age, and thereafter the custody of him for six months annually until...
First good figure for light's speed was obtained in 1676 by a Danish astronomer, Ole Roemer, who measured the variations in eclipse times of Jupiter's satellites according to Earth's distance from that planet. His calculation was only about 3% too high. First terrestrial measurement was made in 1849 by Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau of France, who passed a beam of light through the teeth of a spinning cogwheel. The light struck a mirror, bounced back to the wheel. The wheel had been timed to move just enough in the brief interim for the teeth...
...ensure her Danish divorce going through next year without further fuss, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow finally agreed in Great Britain's High Court of Justice to give her husband, Count Court, "custody, care and superintendence" of their 2½year-old son, Lance until he is 21. Countess Babs will entertain her son on periodic visits. The rest of the time, she will have...
...poet of this book's title is D. H. Lawrence. The painters are Knud Merrild and Kai Götzsche, two strapping Danish immigrants who met Lawrence in Taos, N. M. in 1922, lived that winter with him and his wife, Frieda, in a crude ranch shack which they rented to escape Mabel Dodge (Luhan). Among the flood of memoirs-mostly by women-which have appeared since Lawrence's death in 1930, this one comes nearest to giving an objective picture of Lawrence...