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...Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard Observatory will play host tomorrow to nine Russian astronomers and technicians who are visiting the United States under the auspices of the State Department and the Russian Embassy...
Pointing to developments of stratospheric rockets and "satellite" laboratories high above the earth's surface as highlights of a busy astronomic year, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Harvard College Observatory, hit the bright spots of recent celestial investigations in an address to the annual dinner of the American Association of Variable Star Observers in Cambridge last week...
...human eye. At Boston, a group of Harvardmen borrowed a Coast Guard patrol plane, found a patch of open sky near Nova Scotia. The meteors, they reported, streaked across the sky about 17 per minute, most of them as bright as Venus. Said Harvard's famed Dr. Harlow Shapley: "It was the richest show we've had in this century...
...publicity handouts often bear the names of Comedian Zero Mostel, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Dancer Sono Osato, Boogie-Woogie Artist Hazel Scott, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler, Radio Writer Norman Corwin, Composer Earl Robinson, Conductor Rudolph Ganz, Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Novelist Thomas Mann. And ICCASP's stable of talent also embraces college professors, atomic scientists, advertising writers, book critics, and coveys of ballet dancers-classic or modern...
Professor Shapley, on the contrary, put the accent on science as the potential saving force for the world, and asked for scientific institutions with international participation, and entered a plea for a great science center building to house all University research projects. Provost Buck pointd out the functions required of social scientists...