With a radius between 640 and 764 times that of the Sun, if it [Betelgeuse] were at the center of our Solar System, its surface would lie beyond the asteroid belt and it would engulf the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
You know someone had to send those reporters out on their mission: editor speaks tersely into phone. “This looks like a job for SALISBURY!” Spidy and Poteet, blue with periodic cramps and protesting all the way, are rushed off to Saigon; Lippmann goes to Columbia to get the other side of the picture and the Times Literary Supplement comes out with a double issue. Iron Myke crawls back under the City Desk with the Dean of Women; Drew Pearson reveals that Linda is a dyke and her paramour is a Homuncula grown illicitly with cuttings stolen from Gov. Lurleen’s personal physician.
Harrison Salisbury (Wikipedia) Harrison Evans Salisbury (November 14, 1908 – July 5, 1993) was an American journalist and the first regular New York Times correspondent in Moscow after World War II.
