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Opposed by the witty and wily mountain lawyer, played to perfection by Robert McWade, Mr. Brent nearly sees a miscarriage of justice. The trial in treated as a holiday in true American style and the jury smokes corncobs, drinks from a community dipper, and receives slices of apple from Mr. McWade entirely oblivous to the seriousness of the affair...
...northern sky, on the other side of the Pole star from the Big Dipper, is a prominent, W-shaped constellation named Cassiopeia. The bright central star at the peak of the W is called Gamma Cassiopeiae. Of the second magnitude in brightness. Gamma is a hot blue body of some 25,000° C. surface temperature, as against the sun's 6,000°. In the closing months of last year astronomers noted curious fluctuations in the quality and quantity of light from Gamma, which may be throbbing indicators that it is preparing to burst forth as a nova...
White-robed Shinto priests purify War Minister-General-Count Juichi Terauchi by pouring holy water from a dipper over his hands before he goes in to pray for the Army (see cut). Last week on his sole responsibility the pious count gave the Army its greatest shaking-up of all time, ordered promotions and transfers affecting 3,000 officers. This came as what Minister Terauchi hoped will be the last drastic step needed to restore the Army to subordination after part of it got out of hand last February, tried to murder the Premier and for a time defied...
...Delphos, Ohio (TIME, June 7). Laymen who hunted out the Peltier object, hoping to see a big, bright feather similar to Halley's comet in 1910, were disappointed. Unless they had binoculars they saw nothing but a blur, no brighter than the dimmest member of the Big Dipper...
...back to the Tower, the line still running through my brain: "Miracles are anything that create faith," and thus to bed watching the Great Dipper...