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Icecaps & Atmosphere. Mars is considerably colder than the earth. The midday temperature in the Martian tropics rises only a few degrees above freezing. At night it probably falls to - 80°F. But even easygoing earth has living organisms that can stand such extremes...
Unlike the naked moon, Mars has an atmosphere. It is very thin (probably equivalent to the earth's atmosphere 50,000 ft. above sea level), but sometimes small white clouds can be seen floating in it. Yellow dust storms rage across the Martian plains. The Martian poles show white spots, suggesting icecaps, that creep in winter down to latitude 50 degrees (equivalent to the latitude of Winnipeg), and disappear in the Martian summer. When the "icecaps" retreat, they leave greenish areas that resemble vegetation...
...Sanders Theatre; chairman, Archibaid T. Davison. Address by Paul H. Buck. Provost, "The Raison d'Etre Criticism in the Arts"-E. M. Forster; "The Scope of Music Criticism"-Roger Sessions. 6:15 o'clock-Concert of Chamber Music in Sanders Theatre by the Walden String Quartet. New Compositions: Bohuslav Martian, String Quartet; Op. 6; Walter Piston, String Quartet, Op. 3; Arnold Schonenberg, String Trio...
From behind the thick-lensed glasses that give him a Martian rather than a martial appearance, Military Expert Fletcher Pratt last week shot a pained backward look at the war he had helped to report. Critic H. L. Mencken, who only knew what he read in the papers, had called its war correspondents "a sorry lot" (TIME, Jan. 14). Expert Pratt, a correspondent himself, is convinced that World War II "was very nearly the worst reported war in history." But he turned the blame elsewhere...
Splenetic Herbert George (Outline of History) Wells is a historian whose interest in the remote past is based on his interest in the immediate present. He also brandishes words like a Martian. From the sickbed where he has lain for months, the 78-year-old socialist last week sent London's pinko Tribune a sizzling, unsolicited philippic entitled Churchill Must Go, flaying Winston Churchill's Greek policy...