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Photographers who remain in Boston during the event (where the eclipse will only be 94.4 per cent of maximum), can record two interesting phenomena. By making a series of exposures at five-minute intervals on the same film, one can obtain a record of the partial phases...
Young will probably be kept out. The Democratic Study Group is a powerful collection of House Democrats, and should be able to obtain the support of the President. In addition, the threat hangs over McCormack's head that to press Young might mean the end of his career as Speaker. As a "liberal spokesman" told the New York Times Sunday, "If John McCormack insists on doing this to us--placing John Young on the Rules Committee--he is putting his future as Speaker in great jeopardy. There are a lot of people in the House who would love...
...foreseeable future." Divorced people contemplating remarriage tend more and more to consult experts in order to avoid possible repetition of a neurotic pattern in the choice of a mate, and single women are breaking away from rationalizations of their spinster-hood-obligation to parents, waiting for "Mr. Right"-to obtain psychiatric help while still young enough for prospects of marriage...
...Funny Thing. Even to say that the Broadway theater had lost $4,320,522 would have been misleading. To obtain the figure, the paper listed all the shows that had opened on Broadway this season, what they cost, and what they had thus far lost or earned. When you lose on Broadway you lose all at once, bang, bang, you're dead. But when you hit, it takes a long while, sometimes more than there is left of a season, to recover the investment. After that, the gravy rolls in for years. Hence it is possible to list with...
...engaging," because it is Mickey Mouse. A great many things, in and out of Harvard Yard, are not engaging. The ROTC is one; the military as a whole is another. But some unattractive jobs have to be done, whether or not undergraduates approve; and other values beside the academic obtain in other communities. "Real life" includes much more than the life intellectual which Meyers seems so much to admire. There is an inscription on one of the gates leading into the Yard: "Enter to Grow in Wisdom." Perhaps for most of us the sign should be on the other side...