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...onetime professional musician, Max Adler joined Sears, Roebuck as a buyer of musical merchandise, became vice president before he retired in 1928. He also was stirred by something he saw in Munich-a planetarium. When he gazed at the great Zeiss projector with its twinkling knobs, and at the wheeling panorama of the skies on the vault overhead, he determined that Chicagoans should have access to the same experience, laid out $500,000 for the Adler Planetarium, first in the U. S. Mr. Adler still drops around frequently to see how things are going, is eminently pleased with the planetarium...
Director Fox delivers nine of the 16 weekly lectures at the Adler Planetarium, has related "The Drama of the Heavens" to some 3,000,000 visitors. He was a star footballer at Kansas State College, went to Dartmouth to play more football, study astronomy. There he came to the attention of famed, blind Astronomer Edwin B. Frost, who got him a post at Yerkes Observatory. Fox later became professor of astronomy at Northwestern, spent every clear night at the telescope, slept from 6 a.m. to 11, took a long swim in Lake Michigan before going to afternoon classes...
...Philadelphia last week several hundred clergymen were invited to the Planetarium donated by Soapman Samuel Simeon Fels to the Franklin Institute. They beheld ''The Easter Story," projected not only with lights showing how the moon and sun determine the falling of Easter Sunday (this year: March 28) but also-to the accompaniment of phonograph records and scripture readings-with flood and spotlights which were supposed to suggest crosses and angels...
...site of an uptown Manhattan boys' club. "The businessmen . . . will not have accomplished their full duty," once said reticent Bachelor Hayden, "until there is a Boys' Club in every town . . . in which [boys] may have their God-given right to play and work. . . ." Spiritually stirred by a planetarium performance in Chicago, he donated $150,000 toward the erection of a planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.). He gave his alma mater $100,000 in 1927 for its student housing program. His one great philanthropy, the Charles Hayden Foundation...
...word "philanthropist," but his good works have been many. He is a heavy contributor to peace groups, Jewish charities, medical and scientific research. He backed Dr. John A. Kolmer's infantile paralysis serum experiments, was on the Philadelphia Orchestra board until its reorganization last year, gave the planetarium at Franklin Institute. "I heard about planetaria, read about them, thought it would be well for Philadelphia to have one," he explained. "So I ordered...