Word: sunspots
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...said FCC, Philco, Crosley, CBS, the Blue Network, the Cowles Broadcasting Co.-the move ought to be made to avoid sunspot interference predicted a few years hence...
...oddest yet was advanced last week by an eminent Chicago pathologist. A onetime University of Illinois Medical School professor, William F. Petersen, offered the theory that an individual's chances of becoming a great man are greatly improved if he is conceived in a period of sunspot turbulence and foul weather. Dr. Petersen published a report called Lincoln-Douglas: The Weather As Destiny (Charles C Thomas, Springfield...
...borealis to hit the northeast U.S. in a quarter of a century. It dazzled gapers one night last week from New Mexico to Maine, south to Atlanta. In places in the latitude of New York the display covered the entire sky from horizon to horizon. Astronomers, noting an unusual sunspot outbreak two days before, were prepared. But radio men were...
...sunspot rampage...
...April Fool's Eve, two Sundays ago, Jack Benny in his NBC radio half-hour held an imaginary telephone conversation with Orson Welles, jokingly blamed recent sunspot magnetic storms on him, worried about the end of the world. In Philadelphia, Press Agent William A. A. Castellini of the Fels Planetarium telegraphed Benny, care of Station KYW: "Your worst fears that world will end are confirmed by astronomers of the Franklin Institute. Scientists predict that the world will end at 3 p. m. E. S. T. April 1." A KYW announcer read the telegram-an obvious plug for a Planetarium...