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Manhattan Radio Station WMCA by last week had received over 100 excited, fearful, incredulous letters and countless telephone calls asking for more details of this spectral dancer, whose mysterious resurrection they all said had been dramatized grippingly on WMCA's true-story Five Star Final program. To WMCA and Five Star Final, the flood of letters was more a mystery than the spook tale. The station had never broadcast the story...
...less than thirty colleges in the United States beast the "flaming crimson" as their college colors, according to latest spectral statistics compiled by the 1939 World Almanac...
...Shapley was on the committees on stellar parallaxes, stellar photometry, variable stars, nebulae and globular clusters, and stellar statistics. Dr. Bok was on the committees on stellar statistics and on stellar radial velocities. Dr. Menzel was on the committees on solar radiation, solar eclipses, and spectral photometry...
When the sun comes out during a shower, the drops of rain deflect the sun's rays and split them up into their seven spectral colors. There is no physical reason why a rainbow should not be seen when the moon shines, but such rainbows have been rarely described. Last week, Professor Armin Kohl Lobeck of Columbia University, urged by his scientific friends, modestly but firmly described a rainbow which he saw on the night of June 16, while crossing from Nassau to Miami. Said he: "Tumultuous trade wind clouds towered to gigantic heights and there were occasional squalls...
...Temple. Father Swann told him he had better wait. Meanwhile, Father Swann rarely got spirit communications any more; the Temple's mediums were out of practice. When the Temple went through its first crisis, a diphtheria epidemic, Father Swann ignored the advice of the spirit doctor and the spectral Association of Healthfulizers and cast out the Sore-Throat Devil by the up-to-date, scientific treatment of cracked...