Word: going
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Avenue, a high point of the original version, has no more bang than the pop-pistol percussion with which the orchestra burlesques its pantomime killings. Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Leonid Kinskey fling flat gags around with as much nervous energy as if they were hand grenades, but they never go off. Typical duds: "We are waiting for Levsky"; "Aha! mutiny on the ballet...
This week Father Coughlin celebrates his 48th birthday, in a new and spectacular way. For him will be held "Birthday Balls," like those for President Roosevelt. In Brooklyn, a Coughlin stronghold, an "American Citizens Committee" will hold a party whose proceeds (tickets 50?, box seats $1) will go to Father Coughlin, who will address the party by wire...
...place this week in smoky Pittsburgh-the formal dedication and opening to the public of the $1,100,000 Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science. This week Pittsburgh becomes the fifth of that select group of U. S. cities -Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles-whose inhabitants can go stargazing indoors.* Boss of the Buhl Planetarium is deep-voiced James Stokley (pronounced "Stokely"), generally considered the most inventive of planetarium showmen, who last spring left a job at the Pels Planetarium in Philadelphia to take charge in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...
...particularly Punch-pleased is an engineering stunt unique among the world's planetaria. When the audience assembles for the show, the big, dumbbell-shaped Zeiss projector is nowhere to be seen. It is mounted on a platform in a concealed pit under the floor. When the lights go out for the show, a section of the floor drops a few feet, slides sidewise under the basement ceiling. Controlled from a panel of small green lights, the projector rises like an orchestra in a cinemansion. The stars burst out on the vaulted "sky," and the whole audience says...
Starlings have long memories, sometimes tossing off the calls of summer birds in the dead of winter. Moreover, like humans, they occasionally go crazy over a popular bird tune number, most of the birds in a murmuration repeating it over & over until at last they get tired of it and discard it. Botanist Harry Ardell Allard of the U. S. Department of Agriculture has devotedly studied the mimicry of starlings, coaxing them to perform by placing nesting boxes outside his window. In Science last week he reported a prodigy. One starling, having imitated the long, low, monotonous call...