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Newspaper
Bridgetown Advocate
Location
Bridgetown, Western Australia, Australia
Date
Dec 23, 1948
Page
12
The Hale telescope on Palomar Mountain suffered a mirror bulge 18 inches from the rim, 20 millionths of an inch high, rendering it useless for serious astronomy. Engineers planned removal and correction to resume photographing distant nebulae billions of light years away.
Unprecedented at T Frinton in Essex, the station master placed fresh flowers on waiting-room tables, astonishing travellers and earning a recommendation from British Railways Executive.
A report notes that unbreakable scratch proof gramophone records from synthetic resins threaten India's 50 year monopoly on shellac. If synthetics succeed, 8 million insect workers and 3 lakh lac collectors face unemployment, impacting shellac supply for records, varnishes, insulating materials and other products.
American soldiers besieged a Paris publishing house for Henry Miller books many banned in the United States. A pious old lady linotype worker would halt printing at every disliked word to pray, slowing Tropic of Capricorn proof flow until replaced by a male worker.
A Dorking Surrey wedding bouquet includes a sprig of myrtle from a sprig that was in Queen Alexandra's wedding bouquet linking the event to royal tradition.
Margaret Patterson told police she laughed at a thug who tried to hold her up in Sacramento. She described resisting the attack and driving away unharmed, illustrating her calm response and quick escape from danger.
In London Fleet Street last week a Soviet competition invited sculptors to design a memorial for Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The winning bronze statue shows Stalin listening to the composer at the piano, standing 12 1/8 feet tall.
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