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...editions (from 25? to $2.95) have been bought since 1935. Songs from Disney pictures sell $250,000 worth of records and sheet music annually. Since 1933 more than $750 million worth of merchandise featuring the Disney characters-740 companies currently make 2,928 items, from Mickey Mouse weathervanes to Pluto paper slotties to Donald Duck toidy seats-has crossed the counters of the world...
...such imaginative pioneers Mars is not very interesting, but astronomers feel differently. Except for the unrewarding Moon, Mars is the only object in the sky whose surface can be studied. Mercury is too close to the sun, Pluto is too far from the' earth, and the other planets are hidden in clouds. Fascinating things may exist, for instance, beneath the white cloud deck of Venus, but no astronomer hopes to catch a glimpse of them...
Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who spotted the planet Pluto (1930), is looking for a nearer and even more elusive object: a second satellite of the earth. Since he refuses to give details and refers questioners to Army Ordnance-in Washington, it is fair to assume that the famous rocket-men who work for Army Ordnance are interested in the project. They may want merely to know what opposition from nature their rockets are apt to encounter when they climb deep into space. Or they may have a more ambitious interest: a nearby, natural satellite might be a more convenient base...
...show opens in a stiff-backed summer camp at Brunswick, Me. (in the original, the scene was Thebes), where a young matron named Eurydice Orpheus is shamelessly cuckolding her husband, a struggling violinist. Her lover: one John Stick, a dull poet. Enter Pluto, in the guise of a soft-drink peddler, who offers the lovers a permanent visit to Hades. Sample of his spiel...
...book, The Green and Red Planet (University of New Mexico Press; $4), Dr. Strughold raises the question with restraint. Mercury, says he, is far too hot to bother with. From Jupiter to Pluto, the other planets are frozen stiff. Only Mars and Venus could support life. But the little that astronomers can see suggests that the Venusian atmosphere has neither oxygen nor water. Mars alone is worth investigating...