Show aw 1 q NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N EW YORK having failed to talk to mars as the planet made its nearest approach to the earth since 1924 dr clyde fisher has not abandoned hope still cn c n u u has hopes that sometime of contacting a and n d somehow neighbor mars less ess negative native results will be obtained and at any rate the honor is his for having been the conductor of the first interplanetary exploration ever attempted by the american museum of natural history whose expeditions to var various ious i 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 applied to him when he was adopted by that tribe his wife te ata bearer of light is a full blooded oklahoma chickasaw indian whom he met when she came to the museum in 1934 as a lecturer on indian culture lying in the astronomers 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 seat 0 of f 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 he registered for the summer course at ohio normal and there an incident occurred destined to affect his life ile he looked through a telescope ile he just looked but that look lingered in his mind he became affiliated with the american museum of natural history in 1913 and while much of his work was concerned with this earth its flora fauna fish and other manifestations ife of nature he found time as president of the amateur astronomers association to search the heavens and is credited with having done more than any fellow astronomer omer r to popularize the science through presentation in terms of lay understanding his mundane expeditions have included many remote and mysterious regions with carveth wells he twice traversed little known swedish and norwegian lapland making valuable moving pictures new yorkers and untold thousands of visitors to the metropolis will know him best as curator of the hayden planetarium WHEN HEN miss lillian spalding was a girl out in michigan she was not content with watching the boys play baseball she got into the game herself to and won local teach her boys sandlot fame as a first baseman art of baseball who let nothing of importance in the way of thrown or batted balls get by her and poled out many a lusty drive when she came to ion long skirts as the saying used to abe 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 the effar efforts arts of her boys to express the national pastime but herself being a sandlot product there was bothin 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 masters degree in elementary education appearing again this year she registered for the course in baseball N now 0 w under instruction from a distinguished faculty consisting of professors gordon selkirk gomez P carson and rolfe of the yankee school of thought and professors gumbert danning jurges and terry of the giants she expects to have learned enough by the time she returns home to take her boys in hand and teach them the iniquity of throwing to first when a runner is bound tor for second on an infield poke the time and place for squeeze plays and all sorts of inside e st stuff consolidated features service |