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Over the pulpit in the Little Christian Union Church of Halley's Bluff, Mo. hangs this motto: CHRISTIAN UNION WITHOUT CONTROVERSY. Yet because the pastor. Rev. James Alexander Brown, 67, could not eke out a living from his 75% of the Sunday collections and was obliged to preach occasionally in a rival church, the Christian Union congregation started a controversy which ended with Mr. Brown's resignation last December...
Thereupon the elders sent to Kansas City for an evangelist of local renown, Rev. George Rider, 45. He swept down on Halley's Bluff with an oldfashioned, long-term revival meeting, organized a children's choir and a six-piece band, roared from the pulpit. Converts came flocking...
Poisonous Tail. From a study of photographs taken of Halley's comet at its last appearance in 1910, Dr. N. T. Bobrovnikoff, Perkins Observatory, Ohio Wesleyan, found that the comet really had two tails. One, narrow and brilliant, consisted of carbon monoxide gas, would have killed all life on earth if it had approached too closely. The other tail was curved, consisted of meteoric dust...
...Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory, has been selected to deliver the annual Halley Lecture at Oxford University on June 18. This lecture, which is delivered each year by some well-known astronomer, is named for Edmund Halley, who lived during the last half of the seventeenth, and first half of the eighteenth centuries. Halley, particularly famous for his cometary researches, encouraged Isaac Newton to the publication of his "Principia" and to the announcement of the law of gravitation...
...speech of the Senator from Alabama has been taken seriously by a few. It will be remembered that some 15 years ago Halley's comet scorched through the sky. It had a tail a million miles long. It gave off an iridescence; and some persons grew frightened until scientists assured them that while the tail was indeed a million miles long, the whole affair did not have about it or in it an ounce of substance. [Laughter.] Likewise, the speech of the Senator from Alabama gives off an iridescence, but is bereft of even an ounce of substance...