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...year-5,865,696,000,000 miles. *Dr. Vesto Slipher of Lowell Observatory measured, before Hubble, the slower speeds of nearer nebulae. *Hubble would be the first to deny that all the credit for the expanding universe theory is his. Many others, from Harvard's Harlow Shapley to Belgium's Abbe Georges Lemaitre, have contributed. *One cause for coolness: a studio, planning a movie about the stars, hired a Mount Wilson astronomer as consultant. He was happy with his easy $200 a month until he discovered that the studio had also hired an astrologer-at $1,500. *Humason...
Professor Shapley, chairman of ASP and a national vice-chairman of PCA, stated: "The PCA favors peace and the best interests of humanity and progress. Henry Wallace represents what we want as a leader, more than any other figure...
...Harlow Shapley, professor of Astronomy, and Francis O. Matthiessen, professor of American literature, put themselves behind Henry Wallace's independent candidacy for President at convention sessions of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions Council of the Progressive Citizens of America in Chicago on Sunday...
Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the University Observatory, announced yesterday that his station in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, had just recorded a comet described as the brightest since the discovery of Haley's comet in 1910. Sky-minded newspapers in South Africa and New Zealand had reported spotting the comet on Wednesday...
Turning to the problem of international squabbles, Shapley rapped American complacency: "We tend to think that the cleavage comes from the Kremlin, and not from Wall Street, as Wallace said or from Washington...