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Most audacious of astronomical showmen is James Stokley, director since 1933 of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium. Big, stooped Mr. Stokley (rhymes with Annie Oakley) this week arrives in Pittsburgh to become director of the Buhl Institute of Popular Science and Buhl Planetarium (to open this fall...
...speakers are: James W. Altheimer '39, Douglas MacD. Anderson '41, Bernard J. McMahon '41, Craig Moore '41, Joseph H. Perry '40, Philip deN. Ruprecht '40, Robert H. Ryan '41, Robert B. Stokley '41, Quimby Taylor '41, Howard Hagaman '41, John F. Seiberling '40 and John M. Hall...
...Portland, Maine; Frederick L. Smith '41, of Lancaster, New Hampshire; Wheeler Smith '41, of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Christopher J. Sotirakis '41, of Clarksburg, West Virginia; Edward M. Steel Jr. '40, of Centerville, Tennessee; Robert p. Stephens '41, of Jacksonville, Florida; Dana W. Stockbridge '40, of Andover, Now Hampshire; Robert B. Stokley '41, of Galion, Ohio; Malcolm W.P. Strandberg '41, of Tacoma, Washington...
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...
Reported Dr. Stokley by wireless: "The whole scene had a peculiar hue as if illuminated by an arc light. . . . The camera was grinding and the ocean was getting darker, but I could not notice any definite shadow on the sea. Then I heard the whistle blown by the ship's carpenter as a sign that totality had begun. Overhead appeared the brilliantly clear, greyish-black disk of the moon and around it the sun's corona. At least seven prominent streamers were apparent, as well as several smaller ones. The longest extended about twice the moon...