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Show basketball games. He only missed two games during that time. Irene had become an invalid and Harry cared for her until her death in June of 1944. On December 6, 1947 he married Gaynell Rogers Conner and they had a happy life together. Following his retirement from the University, Harry and Gaynell spent much time traveling throughout the United States and Canada. On May 5, 1971, he was killed in an automobile accident while visiting Cedar Breaks National Park. Cliff Robinson tells a delightful story about Harry Warner when he was a young man. One summer day he was rounding up cattle on the range between Mountain Green and Huntsville. Come dinner time, he dropped into a Huntsville grocery store to get a bit to eat. He also purchased a good sized piece of beef and tossed it to his faithful dog. An elderly little English woman bustled into the store just in time to see what Harry had done. She marched primly up to the husky cowboy with hands planted firmly on her hips, "Well, Sir", she said, "If you will bring Bowser of te me house when he finishes his dinner, I will brew him up a hot cup o' tay." With that she marched indignantly from the store, leaving the two men chuckling with glee over the incident. —Margaret Warner Ranson, Ogden HALLEY AND HIS FAMOUS COMET Almost everyone knows that Edmund Halley was the first person to calculate the orbit of a comet and predict its future. Every 76.1 years people have reason to believe him as Haley's Comet streaks across the sky, right on schedule as it has been since before the birth of Columbus. In fact, the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1456 was surely seen by Christo¬pher Comumbus as Leanordo da Vinci also saw it. DaVinci's teacher described the phenomenon thusly: "Its head was round and as large as the eye of an ox. From it issued a tail fan shaped like that of a peacock. Its tail was prodigious for it trailed through a third of the firmament." 326 |