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...Sept. 15, two tall-masted sloops slanting across the line off Newport, R. I., will mark the start of the most expensive sports event in the world???the four-out-of-seven races for the America's Cup. The owner of the British challenger. Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, arrived in Manhattan last week, a few days ahead of his Endeavour which was being towed across the Atlantic by his Diesel yacht. With a stickpin burgee of the Royal Yacht Squadron in his necktie and a briar pipe in his mouth. Owner Sopwith said what he thought about the races...
...figure commonly set by astrophysicists as the minimum life span of stars. Thus Drs. Baade & Zwicky hold it not unlikely that soon or late every star is destined to burst forth as a supernova. If they are right the old concept of the end of the world???life freezing to death under a cooling sun? must give way to the prospect of life scorched to death by a sun having its final fling before joining the stellar ghosts in the cosmic graveyard...
...displace President Hoover at this critical juncture would be a real calamity for the whole world???Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann...
...fight to wipe out fee-charging employment agencies throughout the world???jobs to be obtained instead from State or charitable agencies...
...largest in circulation but the richest, most expensive, most comprehensive journal of the building profession is Architectural Forum. Last week TIME Inc., publishers of TIME and FORTUNE, announced it had bought a majority interest in Architectural Forum. Reasons: the several elements of the building world???architects, engineers, contractors, workmen, investors?are at last integrating a great single industry. Early advocate of that integration, Architectural Forum promises to be the leading chronicler of a revolution in Construction in the next decade...