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...first clear proof of the existence of a planet outside the solar system has now been accepted by astronomers. The proof consists of the mathematical evidence of the presence of a dark companion revolving around one of the stars in Cygnus (the Swan). The presence of this body was first reported last autumn by Swarthmore's Astronomer K. Aa. Strand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dark Companions | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Spectators already familiar with Sargent were apt to turn to the swank, super-Gibsonesque drypoint portraits made by Helleu during the first two decades of the century. He is said to have done only four portraits of men-and the reason seemed obvious. Among his swan-necked beauties were the actress Liane de Pougy, Madame Helleu, Michael Strange, Mme. Louis Jacques Balsan (the former Duchess of Marlborough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pleasing Paul | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...expediting court bench sat three of the country's top-rank jurists, all of the U. S. Circuit Court: 1) learned Judge Learned Hand, 71, a remarkable stylist, liberal, a truly brilliant judge; 2) his cousin, Augustus Noble Hand, 73, singularly gifted with horse sense; 3) Thomas Walter Swan, 65, longtime (1916-37) dean of Yale's law school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A. P. in Court | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Treasury Secretary Henry J. Morgenthau Jr. went to Portland, Ore. to spur the war bond drive, was given local apples to compare with his own New York State-grown product, compared them (see cut). At Henry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard a young worker remarked: "Say, I always have wanted some money direct from the Treasury." The Secretary reached into his right-hand exchequer, gave him two bits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 10, 1943 | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...from the Class of 1945 will be ushers at the rites: James S. Apthorp, Samuel R. Davis, William Cliff, William O. Fisher, Richard H. Forster, Dean Hennessy, Charles M. Kidner, Arthur L. Lee, William R. MacAusland, David Loring, Thomas R. Nunan, Francis Parkman, Paul F. Perkins, William D. Swan, David M. Thompson, Alexander W. Watson, Richard Wheatland, and Orrin G. Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everts Announces Schedule Of '44 Class Day Festivities | 5/7/1943 | See Source »

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