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...said Roy K. Marshall of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute. His reasoning: If the moon has no atmosphere at all, a one-inch meteorite traveling 20 miles a second would strike it with an explosion visible from the earth. About 1,000 meteors that size must have fallen moonward in the past century, but no explosion has been seen. Therefore, the moon must have enough atmosphere to consume them long before they could make pockmarks. Probably it is only one millionth as dense as the earth's atmosphere at the surface, but 80 miles...
...tomorrow and life on other planets, was inspired by Jules Verne's and H. G. Wells's fantasies. Father of pseudo-scientific magazines was a shrewd, fat old man named Hugo Gernsback, an old-time radio fan, who in 1926 started Amazing Stories. It zoomed like a moonward rocket. Today the magazines in this prosperous publishing group (chiefly controlled by the big pulp firms of Street & Smith, Standard Magazines and Ziff-Davis), average about 150,000 readers apiece (sometimes much more), make a good living for many a shamo-scientific writer...
...mooned at Her Royal Highness, the Princess Marie Jose of Belgium, last week, craning their necks and peering Moonward, as she ascended for the first time in an airplane-favorite vehicle of Their Belgian Majesties who often fly cross-Channel...