Show lo 10 stews THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON itaw EW YORK having failed to na talk to mrs mars as the planet made its nearest a approach apro ach to the earth since 1924 dr clyde fisher has not abaid abandoned hope still has hopes that sometime of contacting and some somehow how less negative a i i if N neighbor e mars results will be obtained and at any rate the hon or is his for having been the conductor of the first interplanetary exploration ever attempted by the american museum of natural history whose expeditions to various remote parts of the t terrestrial err estrial 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 applied to him when he was adopted by that tribe his wife to te ata bearer of light is a full blooded oklahoma chickasaw Chicka sav indian whom he met when she came to the museum in 1934 as a lecturer on indian culture lying in the die astronomers background und 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 seat of elementary learning was in ohio and there at 17 he be had graduated from student to teacher one summer during his career as a youthful veda gogue lie he registered for the summer course at ohio normal and there an incident occurred destined to affect his life lie he looked through a telescope lie he just looked that was all and their returned to the more important task of getting an education but even in later years as a graduate student at johns hopkins II working for a doctors degree that peep through a autele tele scope of no extraordinary power yet larger than any glass glasa he had ever before see seen n lingered in his mind and and intrigued imm he became affiliated with the american museum of natural Nh tural history in 1913 and while much ot of his work wor kwas was concerned with this earth va rs aka flora fauna fish and other man ite stations of 0 nature he found time ns president of the amateur astr astron on omers association to search the heavens and is credited with having done more than any fellow astronomer to popularize the science through presentation in terms of lay understanding ills mundane expeditions have included nany many remote and mysterious regions with carveth bells belh lie he twice traversed little known Siv swedish edish and norwegian lapland making valuable moving pictures new yorkers and untold thousands of vist visitors tors to the metropolis will know him best as curator of the blayden i planetarium alum iX THEN HEN miss lillian spalding was wa T a girl out in michigan she was not content with watching the boys play plan baseball she jot got ato into the game herself to and won local teach her boys sandlot 1 fame art of baseball as man who let nothing of importance in the way of thrown or batted balls get by her and she poled out nil many a lusty drive tl when she came to ong yong skirts as the he saying used to be she had to gald up no baseball but love for tie the sport was firmly established in her As teacher la in an elementary school in three rivers she watched with pain sandwith and with cumulative repugnance the efforts of her boys to express the national pastime but herself being a sandlot product there was nothing much she could do about it 11 time then tame kame when she was elevated to the post of principal and last year she came to new york ns its a student in the summer bummer season jot oi teachers college columbia colombia university working toward a masserd mast erd degree decree in elementary education appearing again this year she registered for or the course in baseball which the faculty instituted last year tor for time lime now ilow under instruction froma from a distinguished faculty consisting af d professors fes sors gordon selkirk gomez pearson and rolfe of the yankee school of thought and professors Gum gumbert beit danning banning jurges and terry of the giants site alle expects to have learned enough by the time she returns homo home to tike take her boys in hand and teach them tho tha iniquity of throwing to first when a runner is bound for second on an infield poke the theotime time and place for squeeze plays play s and all sorts of inside stuff ab she e will not she says ays play herself she will be quite content to be ba coach consolidated features service |