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...first show, "Can America Be Bombed?" (the answer is "Yes" if a hostile power gains control of the sea approaches, "No" if America and Britain keep control of the seas),* went on display in St. Paul last spring, arrived in two freight cars at the Buhl Planetarium in Pittsburgh last month...
Considerable controversy has taken place during the vacation regarding the failure of Comet Cunningham to show up more clearly. Professor William H. Barton of New York's Hayden Planetarium has ridiculed it as "a washout and a rank failure...
...Fool's Eve, two Sundays ago, Jack Benny in his NBC radio half-hour held an imaginary telephone conversation with Orson Welles, jokingly blamed recent sunspot magnetic storms on him, worried about the end of the world. In Philadelphia, Press Agent William A. A. Castellini of the Fels Planetarium telegraphed Benny, care of Station KYW: "Your worst fears that world will end are confirmed by astronomers of the Franklin Institute. Scientists predict that the world will end at 3 p. m. E. S. T. April 1." A KYW announcer read the telegram-an obvious plug for a Planetarium show...
...evidence, he decided that June 18, 3251 B. C. was the likeliest date. Ancient Egyptian records indicate that on the first New Year's Day the Dog Star rose at dawn; Johnson felt there should also be a new moon in the west. Dr. Johnson asked the Buhl Planetarium to turn their big projector back through nearly 52 centuries. The planetarium did it, although the job required 20 hours. On the first try, the sky was not as it should have been. Then Johnson realized that the planetarium was using the Gregorian calendar, whereas he was going...
...Chicago's Oriental Institute, when he heard of the Johnson theory last week: "If Professor Johnson has finally set the beginning of the Egyptian calendar for us, we owe him a debt for the next 52 centuries to come. . . . Unfortunately [it appears] that he went to the planetarium with one or two dangerous assumptions [e.g., that the Egyptian calendar started in June]. We shall have to agree with his assumptions before we can present him with a starry crown for achievement...