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...small heroes met some of their big heroes at the circus in Manhattan. Clyde Beatty. tamer of lions and tigers, shook their hands and gave autographs. Hugo Zacchini, the human cannonball, greeted them. Gene Tunney came over to say hello. Max Schmeling invited them to his training camp at Oak Ridge, N. J. Babe Ruth, who sent each boy a telegram, will have them up to the Yankee Stadium soon, promises to try and knock a home-run in their honor...
...Harvard observatory at Oak Ridge is now carrying on a regular program and preparations are being made to mount the sixty inch telescope during the coming summer. Dr. F. L. Whipple is in direct charge of the observatory...
There are now in use instruments of 24, 16, 6, and 4 inch apertures besides two patrol cameras. Every clear night a group goes from Cambridge to Oak Ridge to take photographs because the conditions of light and atmosphere there are superior to those surrounding Cambridge. During the past week cloudy conditions have made these observations difficult. The 24 inch instrument is now testing a photoelectric cell that will be used in measuring the luminosity of faint stars. This is also the instrument that will open the World's Fair in case it is cloudy at the Lick Observatory...
Once upon a time two brothers. Caesar and Moses Cone, founded a Proximity Manufacturing Co. in Greensboro, N. C. Proximity prospered, gave birth to three cotton mills: Proximity, Revolution and White Oak. To take care of his employes Caesar Cone presently founded the Textile Bank for the savings of his employes. Time passed. Caesar and Moses Cone died. Textile Bank was absorbed, became a branch of North Carolina Bank & Trust...
...open to Exposition, is to be one of the feature attractions of the "Astronomical Fair," to be held at the Harvard Observatory on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings. The mirror is the third largest of its kind in the United States, and when finally mounted at the Oak Ridge station in Harvard, Massachusetts, will make up one of the largest telescopes in the eastern part of the country. It has been used in Cambridge for several years, but on account of the city lights and dusty atmosphere observation with it has been considerably limited...