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Soon after, he obtained a good spectrum from the quasar and, like his colleagues Sandage and Greenstein, he was puzzled by the sight of unfamilar spectral lines. But after staring at the spectrum for six weeks, Schmidt had a wild, almost desperate thought. Three closely spaced spectral lines on his...
The people are of course fascinating. There's sad clown Sammy Spears, the 82-year-old burlesque fixture who mostly just wanders around backstage, eyes staring ahead, his mind seeming little but a vast repository for tired dirty jokes, lips moving silently. But when the spotlight shines on him, he...
Part of the embarrassment is a reaction to the tasteless emotionalism that still surrounds the Kennedy name, a fear of being caught staring at the magazine covers with their sometimes sensational, sometimes only painfully sentimental headlines which still confront us in the Square.
We had a number of encounters with the Portsmouth High School Band (it was Partsmouth, N.H. Day in Fenway Park). We stood attentively by the goals posts as they played the "Star Spangled Banner," then calmly watched them turn and march right down the field toward us. It seemed only...
Story begins with a poignant collection of stills and family photographs. Staring disconsolately from nearly all of them is the vulnerable "ugly duckling" whose beautiful, indifferent mother died young and whose doting father provided meager solace to her. "He began drinking when she was quite small," Mrs. Cole recalls chattily...