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About four or five comets are discovered in an average year, according to Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory: approximately half by amateurs who make a habit of searching for them. "This has been an unusually slow year," he said...
...times a year, Marsden said, "we get telegrams which lead nowhere. Last week, one man claimed to have discover- ed a colossal nova, but it turned out to be the planet Saturn. It usually taken a fey seconds of observation to find the false alarm...
...most interesting moment will come on the night of Oct. 20 when the comet will skim by the sun's surface, perhaps as close as 300,000 miles (the sun's diameter is 900,000 miles). Owen J. Gingerich, lecturer on Astronomy, and Brian Marsden of the SAO expect the total brightness of the comet may then, rival that of the crescent moon, and its tail may extend more than half-way from the horizon to the zenith...
French cubism and Italian futurism gave Italian-born Joseph Stella the organization for his Coney Island, with its warring scene of roller coasters and jumbled humanity. German expressionism gave the discipline to Marsden Hartley's strong Maine landscapes fishermen and lumberjacks. Georgia O'Keeffe, now 77 and living in New Mexico, depicts with barebone simplicity her lyric view of "my country−terrible winds and wonderful emptiness." Even more sharp-focused was Charles Demuth's I saw the Figure 5 in Gold, with its exulation of typography and kaleidoscopic street imagery, is now revered as an icon...
...with her second great love-American folk art-to show "a kinship and a source" for contemporary art. She came back from cash-and-carry raids into the countryside with her Hupmobile limousine loaded down with Americana. Then she showed it alongside her Yasuo Kuni-yoshis, Elie Nadelmans and Marsden Hartleys. The folk art sold itself and helped sell modern work. In fact, Mrs. Halpert's first sale was pure Americana curio-a chalk mantel stop, used to hold down lace mantel coverings...