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Dressed warmly, his radio turned low, Astronomer Gustaf Strömberg of the Mount Wilson Observatory spends night after night looking up at a great curved slit of the heavens. Born at Gothenburg, Sweden 57 years ago, a student of physics, mathematics and celestial mechanics, listed and starred (voted outstanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Scientist on Immortality | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

In Durer's print, "The Trinity," we can see a combination of two divergent points of view which are probably the results of this Gothic-Renaissance mixture dominating the cultural atmosphere within which Durer lived. There is a strange blend of the real and the symbolic in this particular picture...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 4/20/1940 | See Source »

Last week, as the U. S. prepared for the great act - now only seven months away - of choosing its next President, it became apparent, notwithstanding such beliefs, that U. S. citizens have no dearth of potential Presidents to choose from. Whoever is elected President next November 11, the heavens will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men A-Plenty | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

"Yesterday, in a hand-to-hand fight, I was separated from my men and surrounded by Bolsheviks. Three of them, armed with automatic pistols, started hunting me. I killed two of them and the third one ran away. Thank heavens for that! . . . By that time my old pistol, which wasn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 26, 1940 | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

The heavens lowered in the decade past

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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