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...normal people are hanging stockings and trimming trees, Harvard's astronomical wise men will be out in the cold wind following a new star in a new way. They will be following Comet Cunningham with the cross wires of Harvard's six best and biggest photographic telescopes at the Oak Ridge Station of the Observatory in Harvard--Harvard, Massachusetts, not Harvard University...
...past month a group of six hardy astronomers has travelled the fifty miles to Oak Ridge and back every clear night. The thirty-odd eight by ten inch photographic plates which they take each night will not have been completely studied for a year or more, but some results of interest have already been found...
...camps toad-stooled, a carpenter lives in a truck with an oil stove to keep him warm. Wrote one harassed inhabitant in the Louisville Courier-Journal: ". . . Although we were paid well for our acreage, still it isn't so easy to stand by and see the familiar old oak, the lilacs, hollyhocks and roses around the door trampled under foot to make way for the giant smokestacks that rose almost overnight...
...date: one rusty pistol. So littered with gold diggers' picks & shovels is Cocos Island that it looks "like an abandoned WPA project." A frequent visitor: Franklin Roosevelt. At Cocos the President fishes, yarns gleefully about such plunder as he himself once dug for at another famous trove on Oak Island, Nova Scotia. Other items in Wilkins' index of rainbow ends...
...oak-paneled lobby of Manhattan's Algonquin Hotel, popular theatrical rendezvous, Manager Frank Case last week hung the photographs of eleven Broadway dramacritics. Since the hotel is also frequented by actors, Mr. Case announced that he had posted a 24-hour guard over the pictures, had framed them under shatterproof glass...