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...what have you to say today?" They fled back to the hotel, changed again, headed back to California. Stopping for the night at Kingman they registered as Robert Brown and Miss Brown. Meanwhile telegraph wires were humming. Newshawks searched every town hall on the route, at Holbrook, Williams, Kingman. Flagstaff, to trace a marriage license. None was found. By telegraph the number of the car was checked with California license records, found to belong to Greta Garbo. Next morning in Hollywood newshawks called the home of Garbo's director, Armenian Rouben Mamoulian...
...bitter wind shrilled over the precipitous heather-covered mountains of the Isle of Mull last week. A few black, bleary-eyed sheep huddled in the lee of ancient deserted cottages. But from the flagstaff of Duart Castle the Maclean banner whipped boldly, and down in the great hall the pipes were screaming "The Chief's Salute." Hundreds of Macleans from all over the world were there to drink their chieftain's health, to eat his mutton and haggis. The Maclean of Clan Maclean, Sir Fitzroy Donald Maclean of Dowart and Morvaren, was celebrating his 50th year as chieftain...
...Smith's plane, falling directly toward the Palace. To Airman Smith the royal standard fluttering on Buckingham's staff showed that the King-Emperor was in residence. By desperate maneuvers Flying Officer Smith was barely able to lift his plane over the Palace roof and miss the flagstaff by inches as spectators screamed and scattered. "God save the King!" gasped a pink-cheeked old lady in a black bonnet as Air man Smith disappeared, his backfiring motor carrying him over Marble Arch to plunk down safely in Hyde Park. Said the King, according to Palace officials...
Astronomy is particularly related to Harvard. President Lowell's brother, Percival, who died in 1916, did a great deal of research work in Arigona in 1912 which led to the discovery of the ninth planet beyond Neptune several years ago. The Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff is named in hs memory...
...cosmic radiation as a wedge of zodiacal light at the western horizon. In the autumn the light concentrates at the eastern horizon. One theory of the source of zodiacal light supposes that it is sunlight reflected from small bodies or gas molecules. Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, has another thought-but he did not elaborate it in his Philadelphia lecture...