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About 300 stars in the sky are known as Cepheid variables. Some internal pulse causes them to vary in brightness, in cycles of a few days or a few weeks. Most of them are hot, yellow, supergiants. Harlow Shapley at Mount Wilson worked out a relation between their luminosities and variation periods which yielded clues to shape and dimensions of the whole Milky Way (TIME, July 29, 1935). Last week Dr. Shapley, now director of Harvard Observatory, described the first known star to become a Cepheid while under observation. Ten years ago it began to pulse every two weeks...
...Cleveland one night last week, a non-paying audience at the Great Lakes Exposition beheld José Iturbi mount the podium for the first of six scheduled concerts with the Great Lakes Symphony. When the last number of the program was about to begin the audience became aware that something was wrong on the stage, and for nine minutes radio listeners on the Mutual Broadcasting chain heard nothing but ad-libbing by an anxious announcer. Conductor Iturbi, it became apparent, balked at starting Impressions of Buenos Aires by José André. To Cleveland's Conductor Rudolph Ringwall...
Breaking her collarbone when her mount fell at a Long Island horse show, Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim, able horsewoman, was rushed to a hospital. Hour later she was back again with her arm in a steel splint, remarked: "It would be silly to miss the rest of the show...
...birth. With the determination of churchmen to savor such an occasion to the fullest, the Moody centenary was launched last week with a mass meeting chairmanned by Dr. John McDowell, onetime moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A., onetime pupil at Northfield's Mount Hermon School for Boys which Dwight Moody founded. Among men who will help Dr. McDowell in arranging Moody celebrations are Dr. John R. Mott and Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, prime exponents of the evangelism for which East Northfield stands today; Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, who as a Cambridge student was converted...
...average: $10). In the West, 1,200 laymen throughout the year retreat at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Sierra Madre near Los Angeles, while others attend El Retiro, San Inigo, a retreat conducted by Jesuits near San Francisco. A place favored by Manhattan businessmen and politicians is Mount Manresa on Staten Island. In Chicago such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick McGoorty, President Dennis Francis Kelly of The Fair (department store), President Frederick H. Massman of National Tea Company and Mayor James Joseph Kelly's brother Stephen spend "Sixty Golden Hours" in the Franciscan retreat nearby...