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...centred exactly on the star image. Beautifully accurate as it is, the drive mechanism which swings the telescope along with the star's westward movement cannot be synchronized with absolute perfection. Atmospheric disturbances also may dislodge the star image from the cross-wires. Last week astronomers Albert E. Whitford and G. E. Kron of the University of Wisconsin announced satisfactory preliminary tests of a robot which, they hope, will relieve stargazers of this dull task. Light from the star is split by a reflecting .knife edge so that two beams fall on a photoelectric cell. If in the telescope...
...HOWARD WHITFORD WILLARD...
Running away from the police with a bullet in his arm, Lucky Wilson comes upon Pa Miller (Whitford Kane), a pros perous hay and chicken farmer, living in a saltbox house by Cedric Gibbons. The Miller family?Pa, Ma, Pauline (O'Sulli van), who teaches school, and her little brother Willie?do their best to make Lucky feel at home. Willie shows him the rabbits. Pauline takes him cherry picking. Says she : "You have to whistle when you're picking cherries to show that you're not eating any." When the detectives finally catch up with Lucky Wilson...
...moved by his recollection of a performance of Playwright Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People to vote against the Government and force a new election. That is enough for the town's hotelkeeper and political boss, played by the best Irishman in the cast, Whitford Kane. He throws the actors out of their theatre and ends morbidity's record-breaking run in Inish. The sun promptly breaks...
...Mass.; University Scholarships: Spencer Brown, Hartford, Conn.; N. B. DeNood, Cambridge, Mass,; Hans Fischel, New York City; Harold Gershinowitz, Brooklyn, N. Y.; J. A. Gutherie, Madison, Wis.; Leo A. T. Haak, Cambridge, Mass.; J. W. Havighurst, Jacksonville, Ill.; R. D. Humphrey, St. John, N. B., Canada; J. E. Johnson, Whitford, Pa.; K. B. Krishna Madras, India; C. G. Lalicker, Norman, Okla.; H. H. Lane, Barre, Vermont; Bernard Lemann, New Orleans, La.; D. W. Meiklejohn, Madison, Wis.; Brooks Otis Richmond, Indiana; D. H. Popper, White Plains, N. Y.; H. A. Smith, North Adams, Mass.; C. W. Swonger, Durham...