Word: starlight
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...surprise the N.A.B. will long remember. Anxious to go to the N.A.B. convention in a strong strategical position, Mutual chieftains had called an extraordinary meeting of Mutual affiliates to consider the agreement before the convention's start. Even before Mutual's members had assembled on the swank Starlight Roof of St. Louis' Hotel Chase, President Neville Miller of N.A.B., which is dominated by NBC and CBS, had already wired them asking postponement till he could explain matters at the forthcoming convention...
...Others, established later: bending of starlight around the sun, stretching out of the wave length in light from heavy stars...
...same 92 standard elements from some of which earth's life is formed appear to be universal. No one, even with the most powerful microscope, has ever seen an atom. But modern astronomy, by splitting starlight in spectroscopes where atoms leave their signatures in parallel lines, has identified chemical elements in stars trillions and quadrillions of miles away. There is no reason to suppose that life cannot exist in worlds beyond earth for lack of suitable materials...
...Against this tidal wave Dr. Greene could do little, but last week he set out to head off a "brand-new piece of villainy" before it gets too far. In a letter to 165 U. S. radio broadcasters, Dr. Greene protested vigorously against a tune entitled Stuttering in the Starlight.† It goes...
...laboratory lightning differs from starlight, so do the masterpieces of such kinetic moderns as Dali and Picasso seem to differ from those of past times. But other modern artists like to shine in some tranquillity, and of this steady sort two experts had exhibitions in Manhattan last week...