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Show Pi I a .,--s.3 WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By LEMUEL F. PARTON NEW YORK. Having failed to talk to Mars as the planet made its nearest approach to the earth since 1924, Dr. Clyde Fisher has not abandonedhope Still Has Hopes that sometime Of Contacting somehow ..... less negative Neighbor Mars results wiU be obtained. And, at any rate, the honor hon-or is his for having been the con- ductor of the first interplanetary exploration ever attempted by the American Museum of Natural History, His-tory, whose expeditions to various remote parts of the terrestrial sphere have been an important part of the service of this institution. Dr. Fisher is better known to the Sioux as "afraid of bear," a soubriquet sou-briquet applied to him when he was adopted by that tribe. His wife, Te Ata (Bearer of Light), is a full-blooded full-blooded Oklahoma Chickasaw Indian Indi-an whom he met when she came to the museum in 1934 as a lecturer on Indian culture. Lying in the astronomer's background is the little red school house whence so many eminent Americans have come to take significant part in the life of this nation. This particular particu-lar seat of elementary learning was in Ohio, and there at 17 he had graduated from student to teacher. One summer during his career as a youthful pedagogue peda-gogue he registered for the summer sum-mer course at Ohio Normal, and there an incident occurred destined des-tined to affect his life. He looked through a telescope. He just looked, that was all, and then returned to the more important im-portant task of getting an education. edu-cation. But even in later years, as a graduate student at Johns Hopkins, working for a doctor's degree, that peep through a telescope tele-scope of no extraordinary power, pow-er, yet larger than any glass he had ever before seen, lingered lin-gered in his mind and intrigued him. He became affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History His-tory in 1913, and while much of his work was concerned with this earth, its flora, fauna, fish and other manifestations man-ifestations of nature, he found time as president of the Amateur Astronomers Astron-omers association to search the heavens, and is credited with having done more than any fellow astronomer astron-omer to popularize the science through presentation in terms of lay understanding. His mundane expeditions have included many remote and mysterious mys-terious regions. With Carveth Wells he twice traversed little-known little-known Swedish and Norwegian Lapland, making valuable moving mov-ing pictures. New Yorkers and untold thousands of visitors to the metropolis will know him best as curator of the Hayden planetarium. TITHEN Miss Lillian Spalding was ' ' a girl out in Michigan, she was not content with watching the boys play baseball. She got into the f game herself, Schoolma am to and won local Teach Her Boys sandlot fame Art of Baseball as a &rs baf " man who let nothing of importance in the way of thrown or batted balls get by her, and she poled out many a lusty drive. When she came to long skirts, as the saying used to be, she had to give up baseball, but love for the sport was firmly established in her. As teacher in an elementary school in Three Rivers, she watched with pain and with cumulative repugnance repug-nance the efforts of her boys to express the national pastime. But, herself being a sandlot product, prod-uct, there was nothing much ,she could do about it. Time then came when she was elevated to the post of principal, and last year she came to New York as a student in the summer season of teachers' college, Columbia university, working toward a master's degree in elementary education. Appearing again this year, she registered for the course in baseball which the faculty instituted last year for the first time. Now, under instruction from a distinguished dis-tinguished faculty consisting of Professors Pro-fessors Gordon, Selkirk, Gomez, Pearson and Rolfe of the Yankee school of thought and Professors Gumbert, Danning. Jurges and Terry Ter-ry of the Giants, site expects to have learned enough by the time she returns re-turns home to take her boys in hand and teach them the iniquity of throwing to first when a runner is bound for second on an infield poke; the time and place for squeeze plays, and all sorts of inside stuff. She will not, she says, play herself; she will be quite content to ba coach. (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) |