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...shift" as a measure of velocity. The usual explanation of the reddening effect is that the luminous body's motion away from the observer "pulls out" the light waves, making them longer (redder) than normal. But since red light contains less energy per unit (photon) than violet light, Bubble's critics suggest that light may lose some of its energy in traversing space, thus turning redder. It may start out from a distant nebula as young, vigorous violet and arrive at the earth after millions of weary years as old, tired red. If that is what happens, perhaps...
...great gem hall of New York's American Museum of Natural History last week, Linde chemists displayed synthetic star stones that were red, blue, violet, soft grey and pink. No two were exactly alike, but through the high, rounded surface of each twinkled a six-pointed star. The biggest stone, a star ruby, was as big as a walnut shell and weighed more than 100 carats (.643 troy oz.). Beside the synthetics, many of the natural stones from the museum's collection looked pallid...
...Robert Sharon Allen of Pearson & Allen's Washington Merry-Go-Round was Patton's G-2 operations executive (i.e., military intelligence officer) in the ETO campaigns. He came home minus his right arm, sporting a rash of ribbons and a Patton commendation for "superior performance." No shrinking violet, Allen has let his publisher spread the commendation on the jacket of Lucky Forward, his raucous, truculent history of Patton's Third Army. In a not very roundabout way, the author is made to shine in the reflection of Patton's glories, for, according to Allen, "Patton never...
...VIOLET HARKNESS COTTRELL...
Died. Frances Violet Stewart Thomas, 66, tall, gracious wife of Socialist Norman Thomas, who spent most of her time raising five children and prizewinning cocker spaniels and who once ran a tearoom; of a heart attack; in Cold Spring Harbor...