Word: planetarium
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...world so beautiful that, on observers not incurably hardboiled, they have a physical effect like a cool plunge on a hot day. Most people are so affected by their first sight of the glow and glitter of myriads of artificial stars projected on the invisible vault of a darkened planetarium. Thus when a planetarium is opened in a U. S. city, wise news editors keep their elderly pooh-poohers in the shop and send their most impressionable young lyricists to cover the story. Thus, too, the four U. S. planetaria were made possible by gifts not from practicing esthetes...
Chicago's Planetarium bears the name of Merchant Max Adler (Sears, Roebuck), Philadelphia's that of Soapmaker Samuel S. Fels (Fels-Naptha), Los Angeles' that of the late Griffith Jennings Griffith, rich pioneer settler. The planetarium opened with suitable pomp in Manhattan last week is named for clapper Bachelor-Banker Charles Hayden, 65, director of some 70 corporations...
...last summer Charles Hayden, potent private banker of Manhattan and director of 82 corporations, found himself in Chicago with time on his hands. Casting about for amusement, this ubiquitous socialite bachelor strolled into the Adler Planetarium...
...gears, aeons of astronomical time flashed by. Realizing that this was no idle frivolity but a magnificent glimpse of infinity, Charles Hayden was moved as he had rarely been moved before. Back in his Manhattan office, Mr. Hayden heard of plans to supply New York City with a planetarium to match Chicago's. President Frederick Trubee Davison of the American Museum of Natural History had created a planetarium Authority, got RFC's promise to take $650,000 of planetarium bonds to be paid off by millions of 25? admissions. The RFC loan was enough...
...museum enthusiastically announced that ground would be broken in a few days, officially resolved that the project "shall henceforth bear the official title and be referred to as the Hayden Planetarium." The Press printed sketches showing the projection dome rising like a vast moon behind a façade supported by six Grecian pillars and graven with the words HAYDEN PLANETARIUM...