ABSTRACT
The spring of 1950 found Edwin Hubble sufficiently recovered to begin traveling once again, although Paul Starr’s moratorium on visiting the 200-inch, which was back in operation, remained in effect. Maintaining pretenses, Hubble spent part of an evening with a small group of astronomers at Burlington House, headquarters of the Royal Astronomical Society. He showed slides of Palomar, after which the party retired to a dinner club for drinks. A deeper source of anguish was a miscalculation he had made while Hubble was away recuperating from his heart attack. While Hubble fished and daydreamed on the Test, Allan Sandage began living the great fantasy he had nurtured since long before he arrived in Pasadena. The steady flow of honors which had been interrupted by a lengthy convalescence quickly resumed once word of Hubble’s recovery began to circulate in the intellectual world.
