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...housing almost priceless equipment and records, should be-and is-among the safest places in the world. The steel dome and frame conduct lightning harmlessly to the ground. Steel and concrete cannot be set afire by a careless smoker. The cleared area around an observatory site would stop a forest fire short of damage to the instruments. A telescope anchored through concrete is practically earthquake-proof. Windstorms and hail are trifling annoyances...
Best singles score among the 1,500 lady bowlers: 626 (for three games), rolled by Detroit's Helen Hengstler. Best singles score among the 7,000 male pin-topplers: 730, chalked up by 59-year-old James Danek of Forest Park, Ill. Other congressional high marks: women's doubles, 1,130; men's doubles, 1,405; five-woman team, 2,618; five-man team, 3,151; women's all-events, 1,724; men's all-events, 2,028. Top-notch women bowlers use the 16-lb. ball, same...
...White Russian collapse. While hiding in a coal bunker he found a wad of Imperial Russian banknotes which would have made him rich a few years before but were then worthless. In Turkey, the young scientist worked for a while as a woodchopper in the Sultan's forest, was toting bricks on a construction job when a letter circuitously and providentially arrived offering him a place on the staff of Yerkes Observatory...
...summer nights in St. Louis, huge crowds-as many as 10,000-go to hear outdoor performances of light operas (Naughty Marietta, Show Boat, etc.) in Forest Park. The St. Louis Municipal Opera is the most successful permanent light-opera company in the U. S. But when opera goes grand it has hard going in St. Louis...
...Ideal for winter exercise, it can be learned in six months, is low on breakage and not too strenuous for any active man. It has recently attracted many women players. Most notable: British Margot Lumb, who beat Tennist Helen Jacobs last fall in the women's tennis at Forest Hills. The U. S. amateur championship, contested last month in Chicago, was won by Donald Strachan of Philadelphia...