Word: eddington
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Silly." Everything, including Nevada's courts, ran close to schedule. First, Crooner Haymes led a caravan of newsmen to the Las Vegas court, where in seven minutes flat he got a divorce from his third wife. ex-Cigarette Girl Nora Eddington, who had once been married to Errol Flynn. On the courthouse steps he responded to the command of a dozen photographers to "wave your decree," then set out to pick up his fiancee, trailed by newsmen and Pressagent Freeman, who kept booming out: "Is everybody happy?" At the license bureau, while Rita and Dick tried to sign papers...
...issue of June 26. 1933, was titled "Bellower." It was the account of a slight stroke suffered by 63-year-old Joe Humphries, in those days the stentorian dean of sports announcers. Less than a year later. Stockly wrote his first cover story-on Astronomer Sir Arthur S. Eddington. For the past three years he has been TIME'S expert on the Korean war, writing most of the battlefront stories about that area...
...learned societies, it was bidding for a place among Britain's most striking contributions to modern scientific philosophy. It was, of course, also being attacked. Nothing so daring had appeared in the field of cosmology since the early '30s, when Sir James Jeans and Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington led man's imagination out among the "island universes" in the depths of space...
...enormous amount had been learned since the days of Eddington and Jeans. The chemical composition of stars was known: they are mostly hydrogen. The source of their energy was known: it is chiefly a nuclear reaction that turns hydrogen into helium. The stars-at least those within the telescope's field-had been measured, studied, divided into classes. The galaxies, those vast swirls of stars out in distant space, had also been measured and classified. There were new theories too, and good ones, but no general theory to knit things together. This was because (as Hoyle explains disarmingly) there...
...complained that the $23,200 in alimony which he pays each year to first wife Lili Damita is just too much for him: "I may have to print my own money soon unless the amount is reduced." Another outstanding Flynn liability: $6,000 a year to second wife Nora Eddington (now married to Singer Dick Haymes) for the support of their two children...