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Born in New Zealand, he maintained to the end the earthy gruffness of an outlander. Sir Arthur Eddington says that Rutherford used to "pull my leg" because Sir Arthur was a mere theorist. Enormously respected and revered by the Cavendish workers, Rutherford was rated by them a hard taskmaster. When he went down to London for the Thursday meetings of the Royal Society, the pace of work at Cavendish noticeably slackened...
...James Herbert Fay. Purgee O'Connor and Candidate Fay are to the naked eye as much alike as two Irish politicians, but Mr. Fay, unlike Mr. O'Connor, was born in the Gashouse, has lived there all his 39 years. Short, barrel-chested, he lost his left leg in the Argonne at 19, now gets about nimbly on an artificial one. President of Tammany's Anawanda Club, Jim Fay ran against John O'Connor for Congress in 1934, lost by 101 votes. Since 1935 he has held a $4,600 job as Chief Field Deputy Collector...
...delayed timing of this communiqué meant at the very least that Czechoslovakia was subjected to a full day of increased "pressure" and agonizing uncertainty. It caused John Bull to cut momentarily the figure of a man who starts to saw off the leg of a friend when he sees the ankle grabbed by an octopus, as Cartoonist Jerry Doyle of the New York Post observed (see cut). Editor Dawson, three days after his "sawing" editorial, made amends. He praised the speech of Czechoslovak President Benes (see p. 19) as "a model of what a public utterance should be," denounced...
...beefy, bull-voiced No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring tore into a two-hour speech of such exhausting fury that afterwards his doctors rushed him out of Nürnberg suffering from what they said was acute sore throat and inflamed lymph glands in his right leg. The General, the doctors added, could not be expected to recover amid all the noise and excitement of Nürnberg, so they bundled him into a quiet village overnight, then allowed him to return to Berlin...
...ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN POETRY-Edited by Selden Rodman-Random House ($3). A generous assortment of modern verse, with biographical notes on all the writers represented, and an enthusiastic if somewhat cockerel-sure introduction to contemporary poetics-all aimed to give readers a leg-up on Pegasus. Most readers will like Editor Rodman and his broad-backed horse...