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Last October 28 a German astronomer, Dr. Karl Reinmuth of Heidelberg, noticed a faint white streak against the dark background of an astronomical photograph. A similar streak was discovered on a plate exposed at Johannesburg in South Africa. Such streaks reveal small, comparatively nearby objects moving across the sky at high speeds as contrasted with the relatively fixed positions of the stars. This wanderer, christened "Object Reinmuth 1937 U. B.," appeared to be several miles in diameter.* Its orbit was calculated from the streaks. Last week, after all danger was past, Johannesburg astronomers announced that in October the earth...
...WELL OF ARARAT - Emmanuel Varandyan-Donbleday, Doran ($2.50). Brooding melodrama, against a colorful pre-War Persian village background, in which an introspective boy plays a passionate part in wrecking his uncle's marriage...
Having a certain amount of college background and definitely committed to a career of journalism, the fellowship men with $2000 or more will be free to pursue such studies at Harvard as might be helpful in their work. In this way the cultural background so essential to acurate reporting and worthwhile comment will be afforded at least a few men. Although this may lead to some progress, the whole plan is still "frankly experimental," as Dr. Conant has reported, and it may be changed from year to year until the most effective arrangement is reached...
...Grahamite assistants. Favored by streamlined technique and by an early position on an anti-climactic program, mask-faced Graham's parsimonious convolutions drew bravos. So did the following Theatre Piece, in which Pantomimist Charles Weidman skittered in black tights while Doris Humphrey caressed a purple cube before a background of dismembered limbs and torsos. For a moment things looked better for the tired businessman when symbol-minded, mop-headed Tamiris shook substantial thighs beneath a raspberry-sundae skirt. But this performance was actually a satire on the evils of decadent capitalism. Hanya Holm, disciple of Mary Wigman. led massive...
...shek's officers' training school), who suggested a 92-day itinerary, gave Snow permission to write as he pleased. Astonished at the youthfulness of the Red Army personnel (average age of its officers was 24, of its rank & file, 19), Snow was more astonished by the background of Red Army leaders. One was Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh, an "old-shoe sort of man" now past 50, once a powerful politician adept at the chess game of Chinese politics, who became a revolutionist in 1922 and gave his fortune to the Reds. Another was Lin-Piao, 29-year...