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...Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. Forty years ago a British amateur named Denning spotted a faint blur in the constellation Camelopardus. It was identified as a nebular nucleus, or blob of cosmic matter. This apparently pusillanimous thing was of the twelfth magnitude, far below naked-eye visibility. Astronomers did not bother to name it but set it down by number, I. C. 342, in the Second Index Catalog (1895). With better cameras and telescopes I. C. 342 was found to have faint arms. Then these arms were seen to be tremendously long and spiraling. Later the nebula was revealed as much...
...strong chin, which means determination," puffed Arthur Brisbane in his column next day, "and a forehead to balance it." But most of old Columnist Brisbane's enthusiasm was reserved for Nancy Jo Landon, 3. Burbled he: "It is hard to understand why Governor Landon should bother with politics, possessing such a daughter. Nothing in nature is as beautiful as a little girl, and this is a marvelously beautiful little girl. . . . She may be the first woman President...
...Premier of Czechoslovakia has been for many years a man whose name few European statesmen ever bother to remember, they never can get out of their minds Dr. Eduard Benes, quick as a squirrel, lucid as crystal, clever as the Devil, virtuous as the League of Nations and famed as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...
...damn you, TIME, for your smearing article on that great and scholastic Liberal, Mark Sullivan [TIME, Nov. 18]. Did it. ever occur to your smart-alec brood of newsquacks to bother to define what true American liberalism is? Here's a challenge...
...Modern society has created its own tools. The first machine age, which today is coming to an end, has covered the world with the residuum of its work: houses and cities. We have not had time to bother with the happiness...