Word: planetariums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium was really only kidding. It wanted to show the public what was known about journeys into space; trips to the moon were no longer comic-book fantasies, said the planetarium, but a definite possibility-perhaps before the century is out. Tongue in cheek, the planetarium began taking reservations and faithfully promised to turn them over to the first interplanetary travel agency, when...
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...