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After watching the sky for ten years now, Zwicky has found no such star, but he has not given up. The 48-in. Schmidt telescope on Palomar Mountain may soon be fitted with powerful spectroscopic equipment. With this Zwicky hopes he will find a tiny neutron star made visible by the light-bending power of its gravitational lens...
...highly impressed audience of 500 had seen the girls a few hours earlier, the disciplined performance might have seemed even more impressive. Instead of a raptly dedicated chorus, an Englishman would have seen a crowd of average-looking American girls (with names like Foy, Gallaudet, Zuromskis, Lutov, Pierson, Schmidt, Saltonstall) scuffling their low-heeled shoes, swinging their shoulder bags, gaping at the sights...
...against the Demon Rum. They charged that brewers have taken over TV with their "beercasting" because "they need a new crop of drinkers to replace chronic alcoholics." The witnesses also objected that TV advertising plays up the creamy frothiness of beer and ignores its alcoholic content. Dr. J. Raymond Schmidt, of the International Order of Good Templars, expressing fear of the snob appeal of TV, told a pathetic story of "a little tot who says to her mother, 'Why don't you drink such-and-such a beer like the fashionable ladies do?'" Questioning developed that Crusader...
...president of the Society for the Preservation of Mett in America. He wrote TIME to ask for Bohling's address. Then Schehr wrote to Bohling: "This letter is the bearer of good tidings for you. On this Saturday, I have arranged to ship you (airmail) 5 Ibs. of Schmidt's famous hickory-smoked Mett sausage (American variety...
Schehr explained that he first met Mettwurst as a boy when somebody handed him a grilled Mett sandwich at the annual turkey-shoot of the Low German Shooting Society. Years later, old feelings were stirred anew when he wandered into the butcher shop of William P. Schmidt in Reading, Ohio and smelled the teasing aroma of smoked Mettwurst. For the past five years he has been a twice-a-week customer at the shop, traveling two miles each way for his Monday and Thursday Mett. Schehr could understand how Bohling felt about his loss, and said...