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...hardest job in constructing homemade telescopes is grinding the mirrors. These must be accurate to within 1/400,000 inch, and amateur telescopists regard opticians-who grind spectacle lenses to within only 1/10,000 inch-as crude workmen. To make a mirror, two flat slabs of glass are rubbed together off center with fine abrasives in between. Slowly a concave parabolic surface is formed on one slab, which is then coated with silver. The work is all done by hand; it is not considered sporting to use a grinding machine unless it too is homemade. The average homemade telescope represents...
Censor Troubles. Last December, when a British offensive in Libya unexpectedly bogged down, the London Daily Mirror cried in anguish: "Can nobody dampen the airy-fairy optimism of the military spokesmen in Cairo?" Apparently not. Even after Tobruk, the Cairo censorship seemed determined to let only pink fog get through the screen-thus taxing the ingenuity of one sardonic correspondent who was bound to get a little acid out along with the fog. Chester Morrison of the Chicago Sun cabled his paper: "The delicacies of censorship are such that I was stumped in trying to devise a way to tell...
...lacks the timing and spirit that are the life-blood of the sophisticated comedy it tries to be and even the attractive presence of the star does not offset the failings of the production. Thus the total effect of "Reflected Glory" would involve a bad pun about a dirty mirror. It can all be chalked up to experience Miss Swanson's and ours...
Biographer Forbes (A Mirror for Witches, O Genteel Lady!) is a persistent rummager in regional attics. She sometimes dotes a little too much on research (even noting a change in the size of the armholes of the Governor of Massachusetts' coat). But her life of Paul Revere is: 1) a levelheaded account of Boston's part in the American Revolution; 2) an engaging slide lecture on colonial and early republican life in New England; 3) a lengthy portrait gallery of revolutionists like Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren, Tory Governor Thomas Hutchinson...
Exhibit. In The Bronx, Magistrate William Klapp ordered a prisoner, accused of disorderly conduct, to step over to a mirror and look at himself. The man took a look, quickly signed the pledge...