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...three months away. In 1899 and 1932, at the time of the November encounter, the main cluster was even farther away. Both times there were only disappointingly modest increases in the Leonid showers-partly because of the meteoroids' 33¼-year orbital period and partly because the main swarm had probably been pulled into a slightly different orbit as it passed close by Jupiter and Saturn...
...solid particles. Every year, in mid-November, the earth passes through this orbit, and some of these enter our atmosphere and burn up, producing a yearly shower of shooting stars. But the fantastic spectacle of 1833, as well as similar ones in 1799 and 1866, come from a large swarm of particles which only comes by every 33 years...
Unfortunately, astronomers the world over, trembling with anticipation, observed nothing unusual at the last two predicted returns. They concluded that the swarm had been de- flected slightly by the gravitational pulls of Jupiter and Saturn. No one knows if the orbit has now been shifted back. The only indication that it might have is that the regular yearly meteor shower has been steadily increasing for the last three years...
...Delmonico's has increased 150% in the three years since the hotel instituted the custom. Because it is located in the middle of the Rockefeller Center office complex, Irish-style Charley O's ought logically to be deserted on Sunday; instead, as many as 230 people swarm in for brunch-and on St. Patrick's Day, the crowd included Bobby and Ethel...
...admired the artist's primitive entitled Snow Bird that he snapped it up for $200 at the exhibition in Manhattan's Wally F. Galleries. Artist Marylou Whitney returned the compliment, laying out $300 for Belted Kingfisher, one of Sonny's nature studies. Luckily, a swarm of other customers also turned up at the champagne party opening the show to pay a total of $8,825 for the 37 works that Mr. and Mrs. Whitney had painted to benefit the Edward R. Murrow Memorial Fund of Manhattan's Overseas Press Club Foundation. In fact, for amateurs...