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...sold two tabloids, New York Daily Mirror and Boston Advertiser, to Alexander Pollock Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Peru, for a price which was said to be dirt cheap. (It was even hinted that this was a "dummy" sale and that Hearst privately remains the financial angel of the two tabloids...
...inch Metcalf triplet, an instrument specially suitable for studies of the faint Milky Way variable stars. The next new mounting to go south will be that of the new 60-inch reflecting telescope, which is to be the largest astronomical instrument in the southern hemisphere. Both the mirror and the mounting are in process of construction in Pittsburgh, and the mounting will probably be shipped before the end of the calendar year. The new reflector will be devoted to various studies, where great light-gathering power is essential. Among its problems will be the analysis of the spectra of southern...
...last week when she was hidden in Canada. This summer she will publish a weekly magazine containing news, society items and photographs. Each week she will sign an article interesting to women. Mrs. Stillman is chairman of the publishing company. Her editor is Herbert B. Mayer, the New York Mirror reporter who ably dug up enough gossip to force the second Hall-Mills murder trial two years ago. The name of Mrs. Stillman's magazine is moot...
Connecticut's patient Fenn got his 1930-basis reapportionment bill out on the House floor last week and it was debated for three hours. But the same old thing happened. The measure was sent back to committee, i.e. smothered to death. The mirror stays warped...
...MIRROR FOR WITCHES - Esther Forbes-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Child of witches burned in Brittany, Bilby's Doll is haunted in Salem by the stench of their burning flesh, remembers their Black Masses, and says the Lord's Prayer backward. Thereupon the impish child is accused of withering the fruit of her foster-mother's womb, and of casting a fatal ailment upon her beloved foster-father. When God ignores her challenge that He restore this good man's life, she believes herself indeed a witch, and sets herself weirdly to learning the trade. Straws and hairs...