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...meeting might be arranged, Garry jumped at the chance. At the meeting Tully asked Garry to sign a manifesto that would mean arrest and certain death to two of the signers. Garry agreed without batting an eye. In Mount joy Prison he and Tully were put in the same cell; they were to be shot in the morning. To his astonishment Garry discovered that Tully's real name was Tulloolagh: she was a woman. The night passed differently from what he had expected. And at dawn he and Tulloolagh were released; the other two had been shot instead. Garry...
Normano spent yesterday studying quietly in his cell and is apparently oblivious to what is going on around him, according to the guard in charge. Police were in doubt whether Normano's office in the College Library would be searched for counterfeiting materials...
...Stebbins began the work on Madison s hill. Last year he got a leave of absence, went out to California's Mt Wilson. To Mt. Wilson's 100-in. reflector he attached a photo-electric cell (which translates faint light into a current of electricity) and continued his studies of the brightness and color of stars. At Ann Arbor Mich, last month he was ready to tell the National Academy of Sciences that estimates of star distances from the earth must be revised from 10% to 200%. Other astronomers hailed his announcement as confirmation of their own researches...
Everyone knows that the setting sun looks red because man sees it through an earth-enveloping cloud of gas and dust With his cell and reflector Dr. Stebbins found the same apparent redness...
More plaudits came to Wisconsin's astronomer last week with the description in the annual report of the Carnegie Institution of an improved type of photo-electric cell which he and his assistants have developed. Used with Mt. Wilson's world's-largest telescope, it will extend man's range of heavenly observation from the present limit of about 25,000,000 light years to some...