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Died. Samuel Simeon Fels, 90, president of Fels & Co. (Fels-Naptha soap), which his father and brother founded in 1881, philanthropist (an estimated $40 million for good works, including Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium) and optimist ("Nature has a great purpose in view for us"); in Philadelphia. Single Taxer and New Dealer Fels advocated Government control of hours, wages and profits in his 1933 book, This Changing World...
Mummies & Metaphysics. Today the mosquelike structures of Rosicrucian Park house an Egyptian and Oriental museum (complete with genuine mummies), an auditorium, a library, a shrine dedicated to Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, a planetarium and Rose Croix University, with its Colleges of Fine Arts, Mundane and Arcane Sciences and Humanities...
...sized planetarium occupies the center of the room. Built for the College during the Revolution, it can show the five inner planets rotating and revolving around the sun, and the various moons revolving around the planets...
Died. Dr. Clyde Fisher, 70, longtime chief of astronomy of New York City's American Museum of Natural History, founding father and first curator of the museum's famed Hayden Planetarium; after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Harvard astronomers circled the Boston heavens last night in a "flying planetarium" to record the effects of the meteor shower from the comet Giscobint-Zinner...