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The North Star, which has guided navigators throughout history, is not a lonely star like the sun. It has long been known to have a rather dim and distant "companion" visible in telescopes, and the two stars revolve around each other once in thousands of years. Now Dr. Elizabeth Roemer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: North Star & Co. | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

A few days ago my friend, the British Consul General in Rabat, and I went to Casablanca to meet some of our California friends, who were cruising on the Stella Polaris. We had made all sorts of arrangements for their brief stay in Morocco. On greeting Bernard Ford, one of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 27, 1949 | 6/27/1949 | See Source »

John Kennedy, 21, second son of President Roosevelt's alert Ambassador Joe, was shot by his sire from London up to Glasgow last week to help interview survivors of the sunken S. S. Athenia. He was authorized to say that the U. S. steamer Orizaba was being sent over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Angry Athenians | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

"I worked 30 years," moaned Astronomer Joseph Haines Moore, "taking pictures and getting together data on Polaris, the North Star. Now the plates are broken and lost. I feel badly about that, but I feel much worse about the fate of those two boys. . . ."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bulls-Eye | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

The trip he started last week is a three-month world cruise arranged by Raymond-Whitcomb aboard the Norwegian Stella Polaris. Four dozen other Americans will be in the party. The ship, as it lay moored to a Brooklyn dock last week, contained 5,000 bottles of spirits, kegs of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Museum Ups & Downs | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

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