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...notice the difference, because Daley's first effort was extremely Kieranesque. In a discussion of the Oregon State and New York City College basketball teams, both called "Beavers," Columnist Daley referred to an Oregon beaver as Castor Ore-goniensis and to a City College beaver as Castor Nova Eboracensis...
...Buchman 64, was last week in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., convalescing from a heart attack in November. His patriotic pageant You Can Defend America (TIME, May 25), his chief activity nowadays, has been temporarily suspended, but its north-of-the-border adaptation, Pull Together, Canada, is going great guns in Nova Scotia...
Ready to be "inducted" this week as flagship of the Coast Guard's Corsair Fleet was the sturdy, full-rigged Gertrude L. Thebaud, most famed of U.S. fishing schooners. Built to sail in weather that would blow the paint off her, the Gertrude L. Thebaud met Nova Scotia's older, bigger Bluenose in three salt-sprayed races, won once, lost twice. In her day she has brought back many a load of cod and halibut. Now, with her white hull painted drab grey, she will patrol the Atlantic Coast listening for lurking subs...
...nova was discovered by Professor B. H. Dawson of the La Plata Observatory in Argentina. A week after its discovery it was already the eighth brightest star in the sky, its brightness increasing day by day. In the U.S. the nova is visible at 5:30 to 6 a.m., war time, almost on the meridian and some 15° above the southern horizon when viewed from the latitude of Manhattan, Denver or Tokyo. It is higher in the southern States, invisible in Canada except for southern Ontario...
Funniest sequel to the discovery was an attempt by the Japanese to annex the nova. CBS's short-wave listening station heard Tokyo announce that a Japanese amateur astronomer, Shiaki Nakihava, had first sighted the new star. The Japanese called his feat "one of the greatest events in science." Then they located the nova in the wrong constellation (Canis Major instead of Puppis...