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...were startled when he said he was no longer sure of this. But there was no particular reason for excitement on this score. Following the General Theory of Relativity (1915) Einstein erected a cosmos whose radius turned out to be 32,000,000,000 light years. But Willem de Sitter worked out a universe in which space itself was expanding independently of its matter and Hubble & Humason at Mount Wilson confirmed this expanding universe theory by actual observations. Thus Einstein's universe fell into general disfavor, without at all impairing the General Theory of Relativity. Four years ago Einstein...
Died. Willem de Sitter, 62, famed astronomer, mathematician and cosmologist of Leyclen University; of pneumonia; in Amsterdam...
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...fell in love with a beauteous sitter named Mutzli Koch, wife of a Düsseldorf doctor and art collector. They ran away together. After her divorce Dix and Mutzli were married and so were Dr. Koch and Mutzli's sister. Now the two families are friends, visit one another...
Though most midgets who earn their own living do it by exhibiting themselves, Authors Bodin & Hershey list midget architects, realtors, brokers, restaurateurs, watchmakers, musicians, playwrights. Smallest midgets in the U. S.: Adele Ber, 9, of Yonkers, N. Y. (1 ft. 6); Lya Graf, 32, Ringling performer and Morgan lap-sitter (1 ft. 9); Clarence Chesterfield Howerton ("Major Mite"), 26, of Oregon (2 ft. 6). Best-known midget of all time: Charles Sherwood Stratton ("Tom Thumb''), who died in 1883, after marrying Midgetess Lavinia Warren. The New York Illustrated News gave his Manhattan wedding (1863) 23 columns; to news...