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Among the passengers aboard the U.S. transport General Patch when it left New York harbor for Europe last week were Mr. & Mrs. Frank Carlson. They were off on a month's trip to Europe to see their daughter Eunice Marie in Bremerhaven, and to visit Sweden, Great Britain and France. It was just a vacation, apparently. Nevertheless, the eyes of some key U.S. politicians were riveted on one Carlson stopover: Paris. Republican Senator Carlson of Kansas, one of the top men in the Ike-for-President movement, is going to Paris to talk with General Dwight Eisenhower...
Next morning, ten days after the robbery, three youths found Dr. Covner lying dead in a patch of woods near North Reading, about 15 miles northwest of his home. A bottle of nitroglycerin tablets was found in one of his pockets, but he had left no note, and there were no signs of violence. It later developed that he had been taking nitroglycerin as a stimulant after suffering a heart attack last year. At week's end, despite an autopsy, officials were unable to determine the cause of his death...
Scientists know that certain arthropods, including horseshoe crabs and bees (TIME, Jan. 1), can steer by the sun even when they cannot see it. All they need is a patch of blue sky. The light that comes from it is partially polarized,* and the direction in which the light vibrates shows the position of the sun. So the bees and crabs, whose eyes are sensitive to polarity, have only to look at the sky. It tells them where the sun is; then they steer by the sun, whether they...
...Pantheon. Under the sullen October sky, the grass of the infield gleamed, a green patch on the city's blotched and gritty drabness. In the deep rows of private boxes, maintained by Manhattan firms for the pleasure of their customers, and in the special seats reserved for the favored, were the notables, the affluent and the politicians-the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, ex-President Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Margaret Truman and Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott. Among them sat the aging stars of past series-Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Frankie Frisch-a shadowy, wistful, watching pantheon...
...Saturday, when Aunt Jeanne did not return, Inspectors Leloup and Lelong decided to search the hotel. In the cellar, behind a pile of lumber, topped with a birdcage, they found a patch of new plaster. A few blows of a pickax revealed the naked, decaying body of Mme. Perron, a gag still wadded in her mouth...