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Died. General Alan Shapley, U.S.M.C., 70, who survived the sinking of the U.S.S. Arizona at Pearl Harbor to become the ranking Marine Corps officer in the Pacific; of a lung tumor; in Bethesda, Md. Shapley was commander of the Arizona's 87-Marine detachment in December 1941 and one of the ship's nine Marine survivors. Awarded the Navy Silver Star for his gallantry during the Pearl Harbor attack, he served through much of the subsequent fighting in the Pacific and later in Korea, and in 1961 was named commanding general of the Fleet Marine Force...
Died. Harlow Shapley, 86, Harvard astronomer who proved that the earth and its solar system lay at the fringes rather than the center of the Milky Way; after a long illness; in Boulder, Colo. Shapley's study of globular star clusters and the changing luminosity of variable stars led to new means of measuring the vast distances across space and helped to disprove the belief that the earth's sun stood at the center of the universe. During the '40s and '50s he focused his gaze on earthly affairs, vehemently opposing McCarthyism, assaults on academic freedom...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, Emeritus, died last night in Boulder, Colo...at the age of 86. One of the world's foremost astronomers. Shapley helped develop the "big bang" theory, the current dominant theory of the structure of the universe...
...feature on the new town of Reston, Virginia (March 29th). Miss Shapley incorrectely implied that the picturesque houses-over-shops were quickly sold. Actually, the high rise apartments rented quickly: the houses were slow to move. When so brave an especially urgent that the feed-back be accurate...
...Yorkers is the whole gently mountainous area of Southern Vermont and New Hampshire. Typical is the so-called Monadnock Region, with its cluster of unchanged and unchanging New England towns ?Peterboro, Dublin, Hancock, Jaffrey. Those with homes in the area include Chicago Newspaper Scion Marshall Field III, Harlow Shapley, famed Harvard astronomer, Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera...