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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daily radiation output is usually measured with instruments called silver-disk pyrheliometers in which the sun's radiation is transformed into heat measurable in calories. A solar recording station should be high, dry, nearly dustless, nearly hazeless. The Smithsonian Institution has two solar outposts at Table Mountain in California and Mt. Montezuma in Chile. Last week the Smithsonian announced that it would start a new solar observatory atop Burro Mountain, an 8,000-ft. peak in southwestern New Mexico, with Observer Alfred F. Moore in charge. The annual rainfall of ten inches is almost all concentrated in July, August...
...disagree with Tom Corcoran's politics and policies, I do agree that he is and has been a remarkable and very capable young man. But that hut on Mt. Washington which Saturday Evening Post and TIME say he built "with his two hands"! About 1920 the Appalachian Mountain Club built an extension to their Lakes-of-the-Clouds hut on the side of Mt. Washington. . . . Tom was one of several who packed building material one and one-half miles down from the summit of the mountain-no easy task-and assisted in cooking for the mountain climbers who occupied...
Widow Coolidge assembled a congress of chamber musicians at her South Mountain estate in the Berkshires. This get-together became an annual event, the Berkshire Chamber Music Festival, attracted visitors from all over...
Last week chamber-music alligators from far & near gathered again at South Mountain to celebrate the Berkshire Chamber Music Festival's 20th anniversary. Participating were twelve of the world's best-known chamber-music players, the famed Roth, Gordon and Kolisch Quartets. On the list of new quartets and quintets to be chambered were recent works by U. S. Composers Frederick Jacobi and Louis Gruenberg, Austrian Composers Ernst Toch and Anton von Webern, British Composer Frank Bridge...
...series of current pictures revolving about the career of Prosecutor Thomas Dewey. Relief of a sort to the rat-tat-tat of the Robinson film is provided by Joe E. Brown in the co-feature, "The Gladiator", which also includes Main Mountain Dean...