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This year, the comet was due again, and astronomers calculated that this time the earth would pass only 131,000 miles from the place it had been eight days before. As astronomers measure distances, this is a cat's-whisker miss. The earth's gravitational pull would capture thousands, perhaps millions, of meteors: small bits of straggling comet stuff. When they plunged into the atmosphere at thousands of miles per hour and turned into incandescent gas, the show would be the best since...
Costs for the industry were already up 300% since 1940. But part of this rise was due to Hollywood's notion that the more a thing costs the better it must...
Apparently the manly art of grappling is due for an upswing of interest during the months to come. Although official practice will not begin until after the Yale football game, already members of this winter's grunt and groan squad are getting into shape on the Indoor Athletic Building mats, and reports emanating from all corners of the University indicate that the team will not lack talent...
Robert S. Leventhal '48, advertising manager of the CRIMSON, was elected chairman of the Smoker Committee. He stated, "The Class of '48 has been far from a unit from its date of entry, due to wartime conditions. The Smoker's aim is to pull the original men of the class, and those gained by transfers, together into an actual class, so that '48 will have a formal graduation with Class Day exercises and permanent class officers...
back in TIME after a four-year absence due to wartime economies...