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...eight years, others as long as 16. In 1933 sunspot activity suddenly turned upward after languishing near the bottom of a cycle (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933). Since then sunspots have made much news, growing bigger and more frequent, disrupting transatlantic wireless communication and fostering brilliant displays of the aurora borealis. Astronomers looked forward to a peak of activity...
Calm, blue-eyed Playwright Clifford Henshaw Goldsmith is 38, was born in East Aurora, N. Y. where his shirts hung on the same clothesline as Roycrofter Elbert Hubbard's, now lives in a secluded farmhouse near Paoli, Pa. After a tiny role in Lightnin' and a start in cinema cut short when he tumbled down some false stairs and upset three cameras. Goldsmith joined a chautauqua. found himself while pinch-hitting for a humorous health lecturer, became a health lecturer on his own, talked on nutrition before hundreds of high schools. He pieced What a Life together...
...first concert is at Rochester, on April 3, followed by performances at Buffalo, Cincinnati, Pittsburg. Well's College in Aurora. New York, and Vassar College...
Rare volumes and letters from the pen of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are on exhibit in the Poetry Room of Widener Library. A feature of the display is a manuscript draft of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poem "Aurora Leigh," bequeathed to Harvard by Miss Amy Lowell. A letter in which Mrs. Browning referred in 1841 to her famous dog, Flush, is also shown. She wrote that the dog had torn a book into fragments, "like a critic," and added, "But how could he know any better? There's an apology for the critics...
...noticed your interesting article about the aurora borealis [TIME, Feb. 7]. On the same night that it startled Europe, the great aurora was plainly visible at Brenau College in Gainesville, Ga., which is considerably farther south than Baltimore...