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...uncle of Archduke Otto of Habsburg, who is pretender to the throne of Austria...
Discovered by Dr. Otto Struve, Rus-sian-born director of Yerkes, and two associates, the big star is an obscure companion of Epsilon Aurigae, a well-known star not far from Capella. Even more diffuse than Antares, it is believed to have a temperature of only 1,000° C., lowest of any star known. Around the main body of the star is a shell of gas electrified by light from Epsilon Aurigae, in the same way that the electrified shell or "radio mirror" around earth is maintained by radiation from the sun. This phenomenon has never before been observed...
...While Otto Schniebs was in charge of the Dartmouth College ski team it had few real challengers in the U. S. But last year Coach Schniebs resigned, and a 25-year-old Swiss named Walter Prager was imported to succeed him. Skimeister Prager's recommendations consisted of a trunkful of important European skiing-championship awards, including the downhill world championship (1933). He took over Dartmouth's winter activities quietly, confident he could do as good a job as his predecessor. Last week Coach Prager was sure enough of himself to divide his ski squad into...
Coach Prager himself accompanied the other six-man team (the Brothers Chivers and Bradley, Dick Durrance and John Litchrield) to Sun Valley, Idaho to meet the University of Washington in a dual meet. Washington, coached by Otto Lang, pet pupil of famed Skimeister Hannes Schneider, is to western skiing what Dartmouth is to eastern skiing. When Dick Durrance. generally recognized as the best skier in the U. S., sprained his ankle making a practice run last week. Coach Prager was apprehensive. But his other five skiers went on to make a clean sweep of the meet. Dartmouth took the first...
...from such Hollywood productions as The Man I Many and As Good As Married, squanders her talents on the part of a gallant actress, Margo Dare. The persons who get told are a bevy of reporters who interview the lustrous Margo at a cocktail party arranged by her pressagent, Otto Hulett. While Margo tells them about her idyllic childhood among the jasmine bowers of the South, the curtains close. The orchestra plays Swanee River. The curtains then open on the squalid back yard of a New York tenement, showing the audience what Margo's childhood was really like...