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Sweltering hot though it is, with its beetling, sun-scorched Rock radiating heat all day, Gibraltar became hotter still last week. Italian bombers from bases 1,000 miles away repeatedly dropped monster explosions upon it. British warships in the anchorage on the Rock's west side were prime targets, the sea power that keeps Italy corked into the Mediterranean. The Italians claimed they hit and fired some of the ships. Watchers in Algeciras across the bay and in Tangier across the Strait could not tell, but they could see and hear the Rock erupt an inferno of anti-aircraft...
...first youth as a red giant star, like the one in the constellation Auriga which has about 4,000,000 times the sun's volume but only 15 times its mass, and which is only .000005 as dense as water. But as red giants contract, they get hotter, as air in a pump gets hotter when it is compressed. The sun appears to be some two billion years old now, and it is hot enough to live on atomic energy, converting hydrogen into radiation...
...thought that as the sun used up its fuel, it would grow colder & colder, that the end of life on earth would be a freeze-out. Dr. Gamow's own researches show that as the sun converts more & more hydrogen into energy, it must get continually hotter. Toward the end of its hydrogen supply, Gamow estimates, the sun's radiation will have increased a hundredfold. Thus a heat-death instead of a cold-death is threatened for earthlings...
...larynx appeal exude from Jane Froman in the budding song hits, "Look Out For My Heart," "Clear Out of This World," and "I'm In The Mood." Lyrics in the last barely slip by the Boston censors. On the hotter side of the song-leader, Virginia O'Brien sings four torrid arrangements in the Andrews Sisters manner. Giving the audience everything from dinner with the Roosevelts to a boudoir rendezvous with a dozen bare, telephoning Petty girls, "Keep Off the Grass" may not fulfill all extravagant pre-opening predictions; but with Bolger down-stage, its security on Broad...
...surface temperature of the sun is about 5,400° C. Matter gouged out of the sun by a passing star would be much hotter than that-1,000,000° C. or more...