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...University is a planetarium and its faculty is the firmament cast on the dome, then Harvard has, during the last week, greatly brightened her projector. For to Harvard comes Robert Frost, owner of a scintillating name in American poetry. Also Go Strawinsky, master of savage rhythms and colorful orchestrations, conceded by even his intellectual critics as one of the three most popular living composers. And finally I. A. Richards, propounder of impressive literary theories and leading searcher after values in this drifting generation. The total is a quite amazing addition to the list of big names sported by Harvard...
Turning back the configuration of heaven to 7 B.C., when a conjunction of three planets occurred which may have been the guiding star of the Three Wise Men, was no Stokley invention. It was originated as a Christmas program by Director Philip Fox of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, but Stokley improved on it, added music, a crèche, soft lights, a cardboard tableau of the wise...
...science in high school, wrote science articles for newspapers. In 1924 he met the late Dr. Edwin Emery Slosson, famed chemistry popularizer, who hired him as a staff writer for Science Service. As a Science Service writer Stokley hopped over to Germany to get his first look at a planetarium. He was thrilled. Since then he has directed two solar eclipse expeditions and two years ago, on a freighter in the Pacific with Astronomer John Quincy Stewart of Princeton, witnessed the longest total eclipse of the sun (7 min. 6 sec.) seen by man in more than 1,200 years...
When Soapmaker Samuel Simeon Fels financed a planetarium for Philadelphia, Stokley...
Mathematician Albert Einstein, Musician José¹ Iturbi and erudite Baseballer Moe Berg (Phi Beta Kappa) saw their first planetarium shows to the accompaniment of Stokley's deep, well-modulated lectures. Baseballer Berg became a frequent visitor, once herded all his Boston Red Sox teammates .into the Philadelphia tabernacle of the stars...