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Using the radio-astronomy telescope; an instrument which measures the hydrogen content in the space between stars, Harold Ewen and Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, began revising former calculations in the expansion of the nearer galaxies during March of 1951.
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas (Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Thomas Hemsley; members of the Mermaid Theatre, London, conducted by Geraint Jones; H.M.V.). A charming short opera by the finest English composer of all time. Its attractions include a witches' dance, a laughing chorus, a sailors' dance, a hunt scene...
But if I.D.S. paid off the savers, it had trouble making money for its own stockholders. They have gone twelve years without a dividend, and the company's stock was selling as low as $3 a share in 1949, just before Financier Robert R. Young's Alleghany Corp...
The results have justified Young's belief that Alleghany got a bargain. The stock now has a market value of $6,000,000. And though I.D.S. still hasn't paid a dividend, it earned $35 a share in profits in 1950-51. When it finishes paying off high...
Herbert preferred an older precedent: that of "Mr. Purcell, a septuagenarian of County Cork, who in 1811 was knighted for killing four burglars with a carving knife. That, I feel, is the spirit . . ."