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Starting in the middle of October, there will be a series of five open nights at the Harvard Astronomical Observatory. Students wanting admission to these open nights should send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Open Nights, care of Harvard Observatory, to receive a ticket.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Observatory Open Nights | 10/2/1929 | See Source »

An old campaigner is Major General Smedley Darlington Butler. His great campaign (1924-25) as Director of the Philadelphia Department of Public Safety was cut short when politicians decided that his drying-up tactics were somewhat too robust. Last week, as Commander of the Quantico (Va.) Marine base, he launched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quantico's Quandary | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

William Hesketh Lever was born in Bolton, Lancashire in a three-story brick building the natural unloveliness of which was later emphasized by the addition of an extremely inappropriate bay-window. His earliest childhood recollection (1854) was the burning in effigy of Emperor Nicholas of Russia, for at that time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lever Bros. | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

A sunburned girl in a bathing suit, her ankles ringletted with bells, danced in a Manhattan ballroom last week a dance that few white men had ever seen before. To a slow orchestral accompaniment she pounded barefoot on the floor, bowed low, bent back, made gestures as of sowing grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dance Masters | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Meantime, in the other bracket, came an upsetter in the person of brown, brawny Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, eight times National Champion. Seeming to forget her years, but not her craft, Mrs. Mallory stepped briskly to the court, flashed her teeth, stamped her feet, theatrically eliminated England's No...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Women's National | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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