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...Pilot & Meteor. Last spring a TWA pilot over Texas had the thrill of observing a meteor in flight (TIME, April 3). Last week, also over Texas, an American Airways pilot had the even greater thrill of dodging a meteor. He was approaching Texarkana, said Pilot Hiram Sheridan, when a dazzling blue-white light attracted his attention. "I watched it for a minute or two," reported he, "and realized that it was coming straight at me. I changed my course and put on speed, but it looked like it would strike the plane in spite of all I could...
...finest photograph of a meteor ever taken at Oak Ridge was obtained recently by one of the patrol cameras. The observatory is making an extensive study of this form of star, and has a collection of over 500 plates. Going at a rate of 40 miles a second, the meteor was brighter than Venus, an Observatory authority declared, casting a bright yellow light almost as strong as a flashlight held-at a distance of a few yards...
...meteor was unusual in that it was composed of more than one body, all of which moved together, burning in the atmosphere from a height of 100 miles above the earth until it became extinguished at an altitude of 30 miles...
...times even Homer nods, and according to the newspaper accounts (if you will look them up) and my own recollection as an eyewitness close at hand, it was not the daughter but rather the wife of President Roosevelt of that day who christened the Kaiser's sailing yacht Meteor. I have a vivid memory of the grace and distinction of the lady who broke the bottle over the bow of the racing yacht in Nixon's boatyard on Staten Island. I feel sure that my memory is not at fault because I have always looked upon Edith Carow...
Newspaper accounts confirm Princess Alice's impression that it was she, not her mother, who christened the Meteor. In dark blue velvet, large picture hat, sable boa and muff, with a black ribbon inscribed "Yacht Meteor" in gold on her left sleeve, she firmly seized a bottle of White Seal champagne (in silver net to catch glass splinters), swatted it cleanly against the ship's side and with a little silver hatchet chopped, in one chop, the heading cord. Prince Henry cabled to his imperial brother: "The yacht christened by the hand of Miss Roosevelt just launched...