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...check through the Harvard library of star photographs revealed that the group appeared also on long-exposure plates made in 1908, but only as a very faint patch of light, doubtlessly mistaken by the observers for general background unevenness or a faint blotch in the photographic emulsion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Cluster of Stars Discovered By Camera of Harvard Observers | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

...crack at the new construction market, for most contractors still put oil burners in their new houses; 3) Mr. Banfield thinks that making an oil burner may turn out to be a clever way of getting oil burner dealers to carry stokers; 4) In case all attempts to patch up the languishing coal industry fail and it goes completely to pieces. Iron Fireman will not have all of its fuel in one furnace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inconsistent Firemen | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Radio City Revels (RKO-Radio) is a fancy patch of cinematic needlework stretched over the hoop-la idea of a songwriter who works only in his sleep. Fanciest flight: frantic Song Thieves Jack Oakie and Milton Berle trying to cure Sleep-writer Bob Burns's insomnia by tossing a lamb back & forth across his bed. shortcutting by having him start counting at 1,000. Current & Choice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Results of the Dramatic Club's annual elections were announced last night by Robert W. Woodward, '40, member of the Executive Committee. Samuel L. M. Cole, '39, succeeds Howard R. Patch, Jr. '38, as president of the Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Names Cole President as Election of New Officers Is Announced | 2/16/1938 | See Source »

This week, while Happy Landing played five times a day at Manhattan's 6,000-seat Roxy Theatre, Sonja herself was spending at least 35 minutes a night for five nights in her Hollywood Ice Revue on the broad ice patch of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (TIME, Jan. 17). From her personal appearances, which began last month in Chicago and will close late next month in Miami on an especially constructed rink, her net earnings will approximate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 31, 1938 | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

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