Word: star
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Four satellites, large as our moon, swing rapidly around Jupiter, all keeping the same face towards the master star, but each night displaying themselves in a different arrangement. Sometimes they disappear behind the planet, sometimes they fade into its shadow, or rush in front of it. In 1610, equipped with only a two-foot wooden telescope, Galileo discovered Satellites I-IV. On a clear night they are visible with a good pair of field glasses. Of the five other faint satellites. Satellite V was discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard at the University of California's Lick Observatory...
...Star Football Game (Wed. 8:30 p.m., NBC-Blue) between the professional N. Y. Giants and college star players at Manhattan's Polo Grounds...
...last week were added three more favorable items. Marketed through a Halsey, Stuart syndicate were $33,000,000 of Commonwealth Edison Co. 30-year, 3½% bonds, which went at a premium of 1¼ (offering price: 103½). Equally successful was a $20,000,000 issue of Lone Star Gas Corp. 15-year, 3½% debentures, which sold at a premium of 1⅞ (formal price was 102). Week's only industrial issue was $10,000,000 in Crucible Steel 3½% debentures. Like the year's two biggest industrial loans (U. S. Steel...
Died, May Yohe Hope Strong Smuts, 69, Victorian actress who knew most of the rich dandies of two continents; of arterial sclerotic heart disease and chronic vascular nephritis; in Boston, Mass. In 1894, tempestuous May Yohe, then London star of Little Christopher Columbus, married Lord Francis Hope, who gave her the famed diamond now owned by Evalyn Walsh MacLean. She wore it only twice in eight years before she went off with "the handsomest man in the U. S. Army," Captain Putnam Bradlee Strong. Though he pawned most of her jewelry, she married him year later, only to be deserted...
Chicago newspapers have a hardheaded, warm-hearted habit of giving free entertainment to Chicago's populace. Last fortnight the Chicago Tribune held its annual Chicagoland Music Festival (classic music; attendance, 85,000) in Soldier Field on the lakefront. This week it sponsored an All-Star football game on the Field. Calculating that it would be too expensive to dismantle a loudspeaker system on the Field between the two events, the Tribune agreed to let a rival, the tabloid Daily Times, use the equipment last week for a free entertainment of its own-a "Swing Jam Session" of five "name...