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...went on to cite advances made in his own field of spectrophotometry and showed slides of the spectrum of light from Mars, which seem to indicate there is no oxygen on that planet. Mars' famed polar ice caps, he noted, are probably no more than frost "a few millimeters thick...
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...Most of my ideas occur in verse," Robert Frost once said. "But I have always had some turning up in talk that I feared I might never use because I was too lazy to write prose.'' The poet's new biography,* by Critic Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, is little more than an affectionate scrapbook, patiently assembled by an old friend. It is filled with familiar and unfamiliar poems, letters, reviews of his books. pages from old notebooks and Christmas cards. But above all, it contains a steady flow of the talk that Frost, 86, feared might...
...Sedgwick, 88. editor of the Atlantic Monthly from 1908 to 1938, in whose regime circulation rose from 10,000 to 125,000; of a heart attack; in Washington. Sedgwick prided himself on the young authors, e.g., Hemingway, whom he introduced to the public, but he missed on some. Robert Frost recalls his rejection: "We are very sorry but at the moment the Atlantic has no place for vigorous verse." A longtime liberal who used the columns of the Atlantic to champion Sacco and Vanzetti, Sedgwick faced a torrent of criticism in 1938 when he wrote articles for the New York...
...Florida, where the multimillion-dollar citrus industry is one of the state's biggest, that is tantamount to coming out for frost. Chairman J. R. Graves of the Florida Citrus Commission accused Tropicana of "premeditated and willful violation of the citrus code" (which prohibits producers from adding anything to fresh juice), called the deed "a reflection on the integrity of the entire industry." The Florida Citrus Commission called for punishment of Tropicana "in a degree commensurate with the seriousness of the offenses." Tropicana President Anthony T. Rossi admitted that he had ordered cane sugar syrup added to about half...