The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday February 18th, 2022 – Pluto Day
Every year, Pluto Day on February 18th celebrates the discovery of the former planet. Up until 2006, the dwarf planet was considered one of the nine planets in the solar system.
Clyde Tombaugh, an American astronomer, discovered Pluto. He made the discovery at the Lowell Observatory on February 18th, 1930 84 years after the discovery of Neptune. Pluto was named for the Roman god of the Underworld.
Wendell L. Willkie: One World by Rene Wadlow
Wendell Willkie, whose birth anniversary we mark on 18 February, was one of those shooting-star figures that occasionally cross the sky of the United States, a corporation lawyer known to the few concerned with corporation law as the able defender of big business, especially power and light companies against government regulations. As the power and light companies had never been noted for their social conscience, such a background was hardly a useful start for a political career in 1939 when people were still climbing out of a long economic depression.
It was Russell Davenport, the editor of Fortune, the magazine edited for those whose main interest was money, who was Willkie’s major champion and chief speech writer during the 1940 Presidential campaign against President Franklin Roosevelt. Davenport’s then wife, Marcia Davenport was also deeply involved in the Willkie team and gives a description of Willkie at the time “He was an old-fashioned, hell-raising, hard-wrangling liberal, with some of the evangelism of John Brown and the Boston abolitionists. But his concept of American democracy was middle-western. He was the small-town Indiana grandson of German immigrants who had fled Europe in the revolutionary upheavals of 1848. He was a Democrat, a man of the people, well-educated, self-made, belligerently independent, the antithesis in birth, temperament, tradition and education to the Hudson River Valley patroon in the White House.”
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“The Well Is Deep” #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“The well is deep
And the sky is dark,
The clouds are scrolling
And the rain starts falling
With drops echoing”
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Always something; the family edition #027 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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