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...TIME, Oct. 14, you say of the Chicago Daily News, ". . . one of the nation's half-dozen great papers." Will TIME please publish the complete list of six and state reasons...
...means as eccentric as 'the St. Louis Cardinals, whose rowdy characteristics have earned them the nickname of "Gas House Gang," the Cubs have at least a half-dozen stars whose names will be household words after this week. Catcher Gabby Hartnett, their heaviest hitter is a huge, red-faced Irishman who has been with the Cubs since 1922. Lon Warneke a lanky, hay-pitching, coon-hunting 26-year-old from Arkansas, is the right-handed ace of the pitching staff (Warneke, French, Root, Lee), which rotated with rhythmic brilliance through their winning streak. At the start of the season...
...Shapley was president of the Commission on Nebulae and Star Clusters, celestial departments of which he is a consummate master. He reported and commended surveys of galaxies of stars beyond the Milky Way ("island universes") undertaken at a half-dozen observatories, singled out for especial compliment Edwin Powell Hubble's collection of nebulae down past the 19th magnitude of brightness, revealed that Harvard's total of discovered but unpublished nebulae in the Northern and Southern hemispheres was 140,000, most of them fainter than the 16th magnitude.* Hot Ants & Hot Stars. Harlow Shapley was born 49 years...
...Omaha in the convention hall, a bedroom in the Castle Hotel, newshawks found only about 20 delegates, including a half-dozen from Omaha, eight from Minnesota, one from Texas, one from Arizona, one from the Republic of Mexico, and one -"General" Coxey-from Ohio. The platform was what Jacob Coxey always has campaigned for: greenbacks to put the unemployed to work. Only difference was that in 1894 he advocated half a billion in greenbacks to cure depression; in 1920, five billion; in 1935, 50 billion...
...secret vacation. Like a symphony leader turning over his baton to a series of guest conductors, Columnist Winchell had arranged for a series of celebrities and near-celebrities to write for one day each his syndicated On Broadway. Each playing his own particular tune, the first half-dozen guest conductors sounded off as follows...