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...firmest tenets in Harry Truman's personal code is that the private lives of his womenfolk should remain private. Accordingly, the President had an unhappy time of it last week when a rumor curled around Washington that daughter Margaret was about to become engaged...
...bulls the diggers found the long-sought key: 30 stones with parallel inscriptions in Hittite hieroglyphics and early Phoenician, a translatable Semitic language. The first words the ancient language spoke to modern scholars (self-praise by King Asitawandas, servant of Baal) were not particularly interesting, but the hieroglyphic code was broken. Scholars were sure that other inscriptions, now readable, would tell them the story of the Sons of Heth, who fought with Egyptians and Mesopotamians when the world was younger...
...Code & Confederates. In London during the early summer of 1940, Gilbert Renault, onetime businessman and would-be movie producer, found the Deuxième Bureau (Intelligence Section) of General de Gaulle's forces represented by one young officer in a cubbyhole. He asked for a mission in France not because he knew anything about intelligence work but because he wanted to see his family again...
Elliott and Sherover think the cerebrograph can be used to teach multiplication tables, chemical formulas, Morse code, logarithms, vocabularies. Eventually Sherover hopes to market his invention. "After all," says he, "a man spends one-third of his time asleep. This machine will add years to your life...
Died. Walter Francis Frear, 84, first Supreme Court Chief Justice of the Hawaiian Islands (1900-07), third Governor (1907-13); in Honolulu. A circuit judge under Queen Liliuokalani, he helped frame the legal code of the islands when they became a U.S. territory...