Science: Star-Dust Man

University of Wisconsin jacks & jills like to go up Madison's Observatory Hill at night. So does sandy-haired 54-year-old Dr. Joel Stebbins, the University's astronomer. Campus wiseheads chuckle over the saying that "many a co-ed has learned about life while Joel learned about the stars." They chuckle too at the way to amuse his friends, Dr. Stebbins vacillates between full Vandyke and Hitler mustache. A gourmet, he counts the table second only to the observatory. He would be an A-1 golfer if he did not let astronomy and eating interfere.

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