Word: novas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doctor" Pierre A. Bernard, formerly Oom the Omnipotent, at his handsome Clarkstown Country Club in Nyack, N.Y. He is an ex-barber who found there was money in "sex worship" and later took up Yoga, the Hindu art of controlling mind through muscle-(he trained Prize Fighter Lou Nova for his bout with Joe Louis). Oom said he could help Junior for a "membership fee" of $125. His method: "We kid people out of being grouchy...
...Nova, heavyweight fighter, was suddenly homeless-after his horse kicked over a tank of butane gas, sent the fighter's Los Angeles diggings up in flames...
...other wartime projects. But in Europe, notably in Germany and Russia, astronomers have been allowed to stay at their telescopes. At the height of the German military tide, a Russian astronomer in the Caucasus electrified Muscovites with the news, radioed across enemy lines, that he had found a new nova...
Naturally, Professor Shapley has run into some censor trouble. When he cabled instructions to Harvard's South African Observatory to "shoot nightly using whole battery" (meaning: watch Nova Puppis nightly with all telescopes), censors ordered him to mend his language. His most troublesome message was one announcing the discovery of Diamaca's Comet. Diamaca, a Rumanian amateur, cabled his news to Harvard by way of Denmark and Switzerland. A U.S. Navy officer promptly called on Professor Shapley. What, the Navy wanted to know, was the meaning of the last two words in the cable: "Popovici Stroemgren." After...
Many a U.S. state has issued cease-&-desist orders against Toronto firms; Pennsylvania has issued 33. The Michigan Securities Commission last fortnight banned a half-dozen Toronto firms from dealing in the state. Nova Scotia's Government formally warned against Toronto's "fly-by-night" stock peddlers...