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Last week Otto Struve had a triumphant day. On a sugarloaf-shaped mountain in southwestern Texas, Astronomer Struve. already director of the University of Chicago's famed Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, took on an additional job: he officially accepted the directorship of the University of Texas' new McDonald Observatory, which houses the second largest operating telescope in the world. Its mirror is 82 inches across, just under seven feet...
...first wife was Dutch, his second White Russian, his third a pro-Nazi German. In 1937, after his third marriage, he retired from the directorship of Royal Dutch-Shell. At 70, worth $200,000,000, he was still ruddy, still sharp-eyed, still apoplectic in his hates, still pulling strings behind the European scene...
Second director was furry-visaged John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh, who discovered the "noble" gases (Argon, Helium, etc.) and made the most accurate contemporary determinations of the ohm and the ampere. He got a Nobel Prize 20 years after he retired from the Cavendish directorship. Third director was Sir Joseph John Thomson, who held the post for 35 years, discovered the electron while studying electric discharge in gases. Still alive, a Grand Old Man of 82, Sir Joseph strolls about in a black bowler with a cane clutched behind his back, attends "hall" (dinner) once a week, still putters...
...coupling the Chicago City Opera Ballet, under the directorship of Ruth Page, with a reference to the change at the Metropolitan Opera, whereby Mr. Romanoff has succeeded Mr. Balanchine as ballet director, you have inadvertently done an injustice to an artistic organization of which Chicago is justifiably proud...
Brisk, businesslike, ultraconservative Colonel Sir Maurice Hankey. permanent Secretary to the Cabinet, the Committee of Imperial Defense, and Clerk of the Privy Council, last week relinquished these posts, accepted a $9,000-a-year directorship on the Suez Canal Co. board...