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165 “speak for a large distance”: Ibid., p. 326.
165 Shapley began to feel sizable pressure: After Lundmark published a paper in 1922 criticizing some of Shapley's research, Shapley undiplomatically wrote Lundmark that “there will be little gain if either of us … strive to pick to pieces small and irrelevant points…. Think how many flaws or hasty conclusions you or I might find in your big paper on the distances of globular clusters.” HUA, Shapley to Lundmark, July 15, 1922. Lundmark was deeply upset by Shapley's remarks and did stop his criticism of van Maanen's work for a while, lest others start putting his own findings under a microscope. HUA, van Maanen to Shapley, October 21, 1922. Robert Smith points out that Lundmark had the opportunity to remeasure van Maanen's plates during a stay at Mount Wilson in the early 1920s and was briefly convinced that van Maanen had detected some real motions in the spirals, which made him deem the island-universe theory “rather hopeless.” But by 1924 additional study convinced Lundmark he had been wrong, returning him to the island-universe fold. See Smith (1982), p. 108.
165 “celestial speed champion” … “many millions of light years” away: Slipher (1921), p. 6.
165 “increases the probability”: Öpik (1922), p. 410.
165 “Shapley couldn't swing the thing alone” … “and I might keep Shapley from too riotous an imagination,—in print”: HP, Russell to Hale, June 13, 1920.
166 “I would rather do astronomy”: DeVorkin (2000), p. 169.
166 “Chief Observer or something of the sort”: HUA, Julian L. Coolidge to Shapley, November 24, 1920.
166 He, a bit miffed, curtly turned it down: HUA, Shapley to A. Lawrence Lowell, December 10, 1920.
166 try him out for a year as chief of staff: George Hale first made this suggestion in a letter to Harvard president Lawrence Lowell. “You might give Dr. Shapley for a year some position such as you recently offered him for a longer period,” he wrote. “This would enable you to test his scientific and personal qualifications, with the purpose of appointing him Director in the case of a favorable outcome…. I am willing to give him a leave of absence for a year if you wish to try this plan.” HP, Hale to Lowell, December 11, 1920. Complete behind-the-scenes details on Shapley's struggle to garner the Harvard appointment is found in Gingerich (1988).
166 “a kind of rotating galaxy for ideas”: Hoagland (1965), p. 429.
166 bounding up the stairs two steps at a time: Payne-Gaposchkin (1984), p. 155.
166 “He cast spells over people”: AIP, interview with Helen Sawyer Hogg by David DeVorkin on August 17, 1979.
166 band of enthusiastic workers: AIP, interview of Harry Plaskett by David DeVorkin on March 29, 978.
166 “he inspired us all”: AIP, interview of Leo Goldberg by Spencer Weart on May 16, 1978.
166 He also stubbornly ignored new scientific data at times: AIP, interview with Jesse Greenstein by Paul Wright on July 31, 1974.
166 “I thought I told you that I left Mount Wilson just to avoid this ordeal”: HL, Walter Adams Papers, Shapley to Gianetti, July 29, 1921.
166 tendered his resignation ten days before the Washington debate took place: LOA, Curtis to Campbell, April 16, 1920.
167 “the biggest mistake he ever made”: AIP, interview with C. Donald Shane by Elizabeth Calciano in 1969.
167 “the California combination of instruments PLUS climate”: Osterbrock, Gustafson, and Unruh (1988), p. 146.
167 “You play golf don't you? Well, this is my golf”: Stebbins (1950), June 24.
167 “memorable set-to” … “I have always thought that the clubs we wielded at each other….”; “watching the strife with interest”: HUA, Curtis to Shapley, July 10, 1922.
168 “photographing, photographing….” … “hunt for novae and variables”: LOA, Curtis to Aitken, January 2, 1925.
168 “I am copying that instrument in my design far more than any other”: LOA, Curtis to Aitken, March 16, 1934.
11. Adonis
169 “Adonis”: HUB, Box 7, Grace's memoirs.
169 “Had