Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a spectacular and unprecedented accident happened to the University of California's famed Lick Observatory, first of the big mountain-top star-stations, perched on triple-peaked, 4,209-ft. Mt. Hamilton. An army attack plane, flying on instruments through fog, hit the main observatory building like...
The plane crashed through two 18-inch brick walls, littered the observatory's sleek marble floor with broken bricks, mortar, gasoline, wreckage. Both aviators were killed. The telescope (a 36-inch refractor) was not damaged and no astronomers were hurt. But two offices containing precious photographs were wrecked.
Unquenchable Playwright Saroyan ha just written a new play, The Time of Your, Life, in six days, having meant to write it in five. Aware that many people could not make head or tail of My Heart's in the Highlands, for the new work Saroyan composed a 200...
Sandy Calder, son of Sculptor A. Stirling Calder, gave up painting when he found that "wire, or something to twist, or tear, or bend, is an easier medium for me to think in." He has made a circus of bent-wire figures, a mobile setting for a musical work (Erik...
Designer Calder sells his Mobiles and Stabiles, makes them all in his workshops in Manhattan or in Roxbury, Conn. Costume Designer Millia Davenport has an outdoor Mobile-a mushroom-shaped hunk of hard Lignum vitae, balanced upon another-which ordinarily is as still as a Stabile. But during the Eastern...