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...Priest of horse-sense" to George Ade, he lived to see his fashion fade. But Walt achieved a modest pile before his stuff went out of style, retired to California's sun to rest until his time was done...
...Wallow boys by hitching the anchor loop of the rope to a wagon, dances with Mary Todd, generally establishes himself as a capable, dryly humorous, lonely citizen. Then the trial takes over, for three reels of howling prairie jurisprudence, wry Lincoln homespun and Hollywood crossexamination. Only at the fade-out is there a hint that this gangly local yokel is headed anywhere. "Just going up the hill a piece," says he, parting from a companion and up he goes, into a lowering thunderstorm...
...stars twinkle steadily night after night. Some regularly fade away, then suddenly flare up again with undiminished brilliance. Others grow dim quickly, unpredictably, then gradually regain their former radiance. The latter type of variable star has long puzzled astronomers, since its spectrum at its dullest shows little change, indicates that no fundamental alteration has occurred. Prime example is R Coronae Borealis. Reappearance is slow, sometimes taking many months. Last week John O'Keefe of the Harvard Observatory published an explanation for the behavior of R Coronae Borealis in The Telescope...
...social maneuvers interweave with Wall Street plots and humble wives of new millionaires squat uneasily on upholstered fortunes. Although Editor Gaillard Lapsley compares scenes in The Buccaneers to passages in Proust, the comparison only calls attention to Mrs. Wharton's limitations: brilliant chapters like those laid in Saratoga fade out quickly, to be followed by weary passages scarcely superior to the average fiction in women's magazines...
Four satellites, large as our moon, swing rapidly around Jupiter, all keeping the same face towards the master star, but each night displaying themselves in a different arrangement. Sometimes they disappear behind the planet, sometimes they fade into its shadow, or rush in front of it. In 1610, equipped with only a two-foot wooden telescope, Galileo discovered Satellites I-IV. On a clear night they are visible with a good pair of field glasses. Of the five other faint satellites. Satellite V was discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard at the University of California's Lick Observatory...