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...stars travel alone, like the sun. Many are paired, the two members revolving around each other like the ends of a spinning dumbbell. Such bright stars as Capella, Spica, Castor, Mizar (a Big Dipper star) and Algol (the "Demon Star") are binaries (doubles). Some stars occur in groups of more than two. Astronomers estimate that one-fourth or more of all the stars in the sky are doubles or multiples. Last week astronomers heard of a pair of stellar Siamese twins...
Refugees from battle-scarred Europe who reached American shores last week: Mrs. Kaye Don, wife of the balding, beady-eyed British speed demon; Professor Lancelot Hogben, handsome science-will-save-the-world biologist and author
Where were Hsi and Ho? Where were the court astronomers? On this day in ancient China, some two millenniums before Christ, a monster was seen devouring the sun. While people rushed about madly and beat drums to scare off the celestial demon, Court Astronomers Hsi and Ho were found drunk. To punish them for being "sunk in wine and excess" instead of tending to business on a dire occasion, they had their heads...
...John D. Rockefeller two years ago-asking not for money but for advice. Mr. Rockefeller asked a representative to look into their doings, grew so interested that he helped to publish a book, Alcoholics Anonymous (Works Publishing Co.; $3.50), in which some members described their battles with the demon and how they...
...have had for many years (to be exact since about 1925) this haunting apprehension of another world war, which has at least given me a little more fortitude to meet the demon when it arrived...