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...them to "sign" their letters with six-digit numbers and tear off a jagged corner of the page; when a murderer is convicted, the newspaper will print the "winning" number and the tipster can present the missing piece of paper and claim his $5,000 reward. The Los Angeles Mirror (TIME, June 13) has copied the Sun-Times scheme...
...Schmidt telescope was invented by Estonian-born Bernhard Schmidt (1879-1935). Scientist Schmidt spent years studying the failings of refracting (lens) telescopes and reflecting (mirror) telescopes. Finally he devised a sort of compromise. His telescope has a concave spherical mirror, which is much easier to make than the parabolic mirror of a reflecting telescope. In front of it, to bring the light to a focus without "spherical aberration," is a correcting plate so slightly curved that it looks like plain sheet glass. The Schmidt telescope's advantage: it can take pictures of large patches of sky and have them...
Palomar's Schmidt (called the "Big S") has a 72-in. mirror and a 48-in. correcting plate. It takes 14 in.-by-14 in. pictures that cover a square of sky as wide as twelve moons placed edge to edge in a row. The 200-in. sees only half the diameter of a single moon. At that rate, it would take the 200-in. about 5,000 years to observe the whole...
...last week, the once-clouded Mirror had a new, shinier look and Publisher Pinkley proudly reported: instead of 100,000, the Mirror now guaranteed a circulation of 140,000. The Mirror had not yet turned the corner financially, but it was a member in good standing of Greater Los Angeles' vast (22 dailies, 71 weeklies, 165 giveaways) newspaper community...
...Mirror turned its front page right-side-up, dropped most of its color, shortened and sharpened its stories, and started screaming like a tabloid. Obedient to Publisher Pinkley's order to "local 'em to death," it began to play up circulation-catching sex, crime and crusading stories with a Los Angeles angle. The Mirror offered $100,000 in rewards to readers who helped solve 20 local murders, exposed a baby-adoption racket, and pursued Rita & Aly from continent to continent with the determined zest of a private eye on a fat expense account. But the tabloid...