Word: goldberg
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...years on the stage, Funnyman Joe Cook has thought up some 1,000 implausible inventions of the Rube Goldberg order, never sold one until last week. Then he sold one for $1,000. It was a doughnut-dunking machine (a pulley-and-string contraption) featured in his present Broadway show, It Happens on Ice. Purchaser was Doughnut Corporation of America. The sale was authentic, the money real. For Doughnut Corp., $1,000 for publicity was cheap...
There public "open nights" at the Observatory will be held May 21,22, and 24. The lectures are: May 21, "Exploding Stars," Dr. Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin; May 22, "Storms on the Sun," Dr. Leo Goldberg; and May 24, "The Earth As a Clock,". Dr. Fred L. Whipple...
Sponsoring three "open nights," the University Observatory will be thrown open to the public May 21, 22, and 24 for a series of lectures. Dr. Cecelia Payne Gaposchkin will speak on "Exploding Stars" the first night; Dr. Leo Goldberg will discuss "Storms on the Sun" on May 22; and Dr. Fred L. Whipple will talk on "The Earth as a Clock" the concluding evening...
Robert F. Thurell '42 and Roger Stokey '42 composed the Crimson partnership which tallied 123 points to Radcliffe's 126 and Princeton's 124 1/2. Princeton was leading the Radcliffe combination in the first round of the tournament, but Mary Ashley and Muriel Goldberg of Radcliffe pulled ahead to win on Saturday...
...Crimson marksmen excelled individually as well as collectively. Meyers of Northeastern was high man with 276 points, and Bedworth of Yale was third with 275. Captain Lem Hyde, with 275, Slim Goldberg with 274 and Les Rusoff with 273, all, of Harvard, however, became the other three of the top fie sharpshooters. Diz Dunbar, 266, and Bill Cooper, 260, were the other Crimson shooters, while Ted Miller and Larry Shaul acted as alternates. Next year's captain and letter winners will be announced later...