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...Tombaugh, 24, an assistant at the observatory, saw a strange blotch of light on a new plate. He hastily took the photograph to Vesto Melvin Slipher, director of the observatory. Dr. Slipher joyfully notified his younger brother, Earl Carl Slipher, and the rest of the staff, including Carl Otto Lampland. They were quite excited. Here visibly was Percival Lowell's proof. Night after night they rephotographed the planet. Pictures showed that it moved slightly in the same direction as the other planets. This was additional proof. They might have shouted out their find at once. But they deliberately saved...
Bulgy and bald as a well-stuffed wurst is Herr Otto Schultzenstein, prosperous Berlin shoe factory official. Last week he successfully defied German efforts to punish him for possessing two wives...
Back to Berlin moved Otto Schultzenstein with his young, Red wife and was promptly charged with bigamy by his old German wife, as sharp and relentless as her meat-hatchet...
Clearly, since neither of Otto Schultzenstein's wives had sought to invalidate either marriage, the German court could do only what it did, namely dismiss Otto Schultzenstein as a guiltless and triumphant bigamist...
...Rondo Veneziano to be played by Conductor Arturo Toscanini after a 13-weeks' absence from the Philharmonic-Symphony. Composer Pizzetti had been widely heralded, his coming sponsored by Conductor and Signora Toscanini, by Italian Ambassador Nobile Giacomo de Martino, Metropolitan Opera Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Mrs. Otto Hermann Kahn, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. His career had been extensively reviewed: Pizzetti is Parma-born, a musical critic, director of the Milan Conservatory, friend of Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio with whom he has collaborated on three operas.* His opinions had been aired: Pizzetti has no fears...