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Schenck again testifies before grand jury; admits talks with O'Connell; consents to answer questions on Appellate Div confs; Monaghan comments on Murray refusal to disqualify himself; replies to Schirick statement
D M Nelson named Roosevelt personal repr with Cabinet rank; apptmt lr
1944Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and astronomer (born 1882)[†]
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, was an English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician. He was also a philosopher of science and a populariser of science. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.