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...from the centre of U. S. population, converged last week 23 Governors of 23 States for their 23rd annual convention. Through the broad lobby of the big, buff French Lick Springs Hotel, set among wooded hills, they marched back & forth smoking, joshing, talking politics. They drank Pluto water ("If nature won't, Pluto will") at 55° direct from the spring -or piping hot at the hotel buffet. Many were the regretful comments on the absence of their friend, the late great Tom Taggart, Democratic boss of Indiana and millionaire proprietor of this resort...
Odin Roberts '86, was the first to address the club, speaking on the work of Sir James Jeans, who was guest of honor at the dinner. Miss Margaret Har wood, director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory at Nantucket, discussed the present state of knowledge concerning the major planet Pluto and the asteroid Eros, both of which have been closely studied of recent months. Professor Frederick Slocum, of Wesleyan University, followed with a talk-on the next New England major eclipse, predicted for August 31, 1932, indicated the eclipse weather prospects and probable meteoric conditions...
...Coste & Bellonte flight; the Gandhi movement; the U. S. Drought; the discovery of Planet X (Pluto); the return of King Carol. I. N. S.-November's election; Coste & Bellonte; South American revolutions; return of King Carol; Italian earthquake. Editor & Publisher carried the survey further, asked editors to imagine what might be the "sweetest" news break of 1931 (barring death and disaster). Some imaginings: Roy Wilson Howard, chairman of Scripps-Howard papers, Paul Patterson, president of Baltimore Sun, Ik Shuman, executive editor of Paul Block newspapers, and others: Affirmation by the Supreme Court of Judge Clark's decision invalidating...
Titles of the talks to be given at 7.30 o'clock on the various open nights are as follows: Friday, October 17, "Pluto and Eros" by Professor Anne S. Young of Mt. Holyoke College; Tuesday, October 21, "Measuring Starlight" by Professor E. S. King; Thursday, October 23, "Something about Comets" by Leon Campbell; Tuesday, October 28, "More About Nebulae" by Miss Adelaide Ames; Thursday, October 30, "The Interior of a Star" by Professor H. H. Plaskett. The last four speakers are connected with the observatory. The open nights are being held under the auspices of the Bond Astronomical Club...
...airmail letter-recently received at the observatory from Professor Leuschner of the University of California transmitted observations made of the new planet Pluto at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Wisconsin, indicating that the ninth planet, discovered last March, is following the course predicted...