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...solemn procession, Prince, pillow and nurse went first to the Koreiden shrine, dedicated to the spirits of the 123 Emperors of Japan who ruled before Emperor Hirohito; then to the Shinden, where they honored the "So myriad" deities of Shintoism; finally to the Kashikodokoro, the shrine of the Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, ancestress of the imperial family...
...People seen to take such an interest in my work," laughed Sally as she wiggled her tows before the mirror and continued to play with her costume. "Not long ago I happened to mention that each of my fans cost $400, and that, consequently, I had to be very careful of them. Inside of a week I received a lovely letter from a boy in Cambridge suggesting that I buy smaller fans since they would be far less expensive and I wouldn't have to worry about misplacing them. I think it was sweet of him, don't your...
...vast room in the Corning Glass Works at Corning. N. Y. For one day they were to be both stagehands and actors. For weeks they had rehearsed every movement they were to make during one eleven-hour performance-the pouring of the 2OO-inch (16 ft. 8 in.) telescope mirror for California Institute of Technology. High as a house in the centre of the room stood a furnace which had been under fire for three weeks. In its great belly was a 34-ton lake of molten pyrex borosilicate glass, white hot at 1.500° C. Three doors...
Hour after hour like a well-drilled football team the ladlemen dipped and poured load after load. The completed mirror was to weigh 20 tons: that meant 100 trips. To a balcony commanding the scene 50 spectators at a time were admitted, quickly shooed away to make room for 50 more. Mingling with newshawks on three platforms and watching at their leisure were some twoscore scientific notables: Sir William Bragg, Nobel prizeman now lecturing at Cornell; Mt. Wilson Observatory's famed Walter Sydney Adams; Research Directors Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories and Charles Edward Kenneth Mees...
Returning to Manhattan from a West Indian holiday, Sprinkler Manufacturer William Magraw discovered that his wife, Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, widow of Publisher Edward R. Thomas of the New York Morning Telegraph and twice a divorcee, had cut off all her hair. The New York Dailv Mirror printed her photograph. Said Magraw, who is even balder than his wife: "It is the beginning of a reaction against artificiality. . . . This hairdressing business has become a racket. . . . For color she will wear transformations. ... If she wants to wear red, green or purple hair, it is all one with...