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Director-Co-Author Logan was born 39 years ago "on the paved side of Texarkana." At eight, he saw his first theatrical production-a morality play "full of handmaidens personifying things like Beauty, Youth and Modesty. I think what really got me was seeing Flattery enter through a mirror...
Except for the smaller print, the rest of the magazine is standard in appearance and content. "The Child Is a Mirror," by Ruth Stone, is a small poem that is nevertheless rich in imagery. John Ashbery has turned up with another delicate poem; perhaps it is a little less comprehensible than usual. The same people are doing the art work again, but the cover in not Corey Weleh's best work. In general, the entire issue is not the Advocate's best, but then Spring does not come officially until March 21st...
Hair Oil & Aluminum. The polished surface of the mirror was transparent glass, still to be covered with a reflecting film of aluminum. Before this could be done, the glass had to be cleaned perfectly. The trick was to cover the surface with a "monomolecular layer" (one molecule thick) of a fatty acid to keep dust off the glass. This process sounds formidably scientific, but in practice the glass was covered with a well-advertised brand of hair oil (essentially an emulsion of lanolin), and the excess wiped off carefully with special wool flannel...
Historic Night. Palomar's 200-inch telescope is all but complete now, with the big mirror in place. There is still much tinkering to be done. The mirror, slightly flexible, is supported by 36 complicated gadgets to keep it accurately in shape as the telescope changes its position. Each support contains 1,100 parts, and each will need expert adjustments before it works correctly. So will other mechanisms...
Below him will lie the great mirror, like a pool of still black water dimly sprinkled with stars. Around him will flow the starlight, down to the mirror and up to the "prime focus" of the telescope (see drawing), a rectangular hole in a tablelike structure in front...