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WALTER A. STEWART Johns Hopkins University Baltimore...
Calculated maximum totality at the noon point in mid-Pacific was 7 min. 4 sec. Astronomers James Stokley of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute and John Quincy Stewart of Princeton did not quite reach this point in the S. S. Steelmaker, a freighter belonging to a subsidiary of U. S. Steel Corp., but with sympathetic co-operation from the captain they did get close enough to expect a duration of 7 min. 2 sec. Actually they were in the shadow cone for 7 min. 6 sec.-longer than the mathematical maximum-because while the shadow fled eastward the ship...
Tall, baldish Donald Ogden Stewart began mildly with a description of working in Hollywood, soon came back to the same unhumorous warning...
Descended on his father's side from the first Earl of Warwick, on his mother's from Commodore Charles Stewart of Virginia, Parnell spent a year on his brother's Alabama peach farm long before he ever contemplated a political career. The picture picks up his story five years after his original election to Parliament, when he has become leader of the fight for Ireland's Home Rule. The climax of Parnell's career has been ably studied in a recent biography (Parnell, by Joan Haslip) as well as in Author Schauffler's play...
...scientists to study the composition and behavior of the sun's outer envelope and to photograph the magnificent flare of the corona, that expeditions were waiting for the shadow at both these meagre vantage points. Two astronomers-James Stokley of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute and John Quincy Stewart of Princeton-decided to go to the point of maximum duration in a 6,000-ton freighter. They planned to take snapshots with hand cameras, note the direction and length of the corona's streamers and take brightness measurements with photoelectric cells. Whatever the value of these observations, they...