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...peeper. The author: St. Clair McKelway, free-lance newshawk and onetime managing editor of The New Yorker. So sharp was Mc-Kelway's scalpel that Winchell, who had expected a pat on the head, did not realize until the operation was well begun that his throat was being slit. This week the operation appeared in book form for as many of Winchell's some 10,000,000 column readers as might relish dignified, cruel irony of the best New Yorker grade. A few of McKelway's incisions...
While the Reds were splitting a double-header with the Boston Bees last week, 29-year-old Willard Hershberger, the Reds' second-string catcher, remained in his hotel room. When friends went to look for him they found that he had slit his throat with a razor. Alleged reason: despair over i) the Reds' loss of a double-header day before; 2 ) his own batting slump...
Dressed warmly, his radio turned low, Astronomer Gustaf Strömberg of the Mount Wilson Observatory spends night after night looking up at a great curved slit of the heavens. Born at Gothenburg, Sweden 57 years ago, a student of physics, mathematics and celestial mechanics, listed and starred (voted outstanding by his scientific colleagues) in American Men of Science for distinguished research in stellar motions, statistics and luminosities, Gustaf Strömberg is nevertheless not the kind of scientist to pore myopically over tables and spectrum slides while taking the stars for granted. During the long nights on the mountain...
...turpentine, 2,000,000 bbl. of rosin, hit $63,500,000 in 1921. Of that lush business, some 60% was in exports. In all those years turpentiners had but one worry: to keep ahead of the logging crews. Cheap Negro labor ($4-$6 a week today) slit the trees, drew the sap. Hundreds of individual distillers boiled it down, sold turpentine and rosin to factors who stored them until purchasers came to buy. It was almost too good to be true...
Since 1868 astronomers with wide-slit spectroscopes have been able to see the prominences without benefit of eclipse, and in recent years the prominences have been studied and photographed regularly with spectrohelioscopes and spectroheliographs. Bernard Lyot of France, operating a special telescope from a mountain in the Pyrenees, managed to chart the corona of the uneclipsed sun, and Bell Telephone Laboratories have lately designed an instrument called the "Coronaviser," which sidetracks the light from the body of the sun, then scans the prominences and corona with a television pickup. But nothing equals one of Nature's own blackouts...