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...much about these tuneless, codeless, cosmic broadcasts, but the National Bureau of Standards hopes to find out more. Last week, at Sterling, Va., 40 miles from Washington, Standards was building a radio observatory to study the waves and their origin. In charge of the observatory is young (35) Grote Reber, who broke into radio astronomy by developing a hobby...
Married. Ellsworth ("Sonny") Wisecarver, 17, tabloid-trumpeted wolf cub, who at 14 ran off with an unmarried mother seven years his senior ("You take Sinatra . . . I'll take Sonny"), ran off again at 16 with another matron of 25 ("an interlude of golden ecstasy"); and Betty Zoe Reber, 17, a plump, Mormon high-school girl; he for the second time, she for the first; in St. George, Utah...
...Washington British Ambassador Lord Halifax issued a cold denial. Nevertheless, Ambassador Phillips resigned, effective Sept. 1, and was replaced last week by two old State Department hands, Robert Murphy and Samuel Reber. The State Department denied that the moves had any relation to the Pearson charges...
Along with Murphy went Career Diplomat Samuel Reber, his onetime assistant in Algiers. Sam Reber, 41, is an expert on French affairs, once held down the Department's French desk. With the rank of minister, he will handle, temporarily at least, diplomatic liaison with the new French Government...
...signalize his new status, Admiral Robert and the State Department's Samuel Reber last week again signed agreements the Admiral had signed twice before (after consulting Vichy) with U.S. officials. Main terms: 1) immobilization of the French aircraft carrier Beam, two cruisers, some auxiliary and merchant ships; 2) U.S. supervision of communications; 3) U.S. economic aid; 4) the right to keep U.S. observers in the French West Indies, of which Martinique-on a direct route between Europe and the Panama Canal-is most strategic (TIME, May 25). Likely results: 1) practical independence for the French West Indies; 2) little...