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...tall, he resembled a contented moose. When he held a huge garden party for his visiting King in 1939, he coolly consoled those he could not invite: "It's like heaven. Some are taken and some are left."¶Lord Lothian (1939-40), a Scottish Liberal and Christian Scientist who once lived in a hut next to Gandhi, loved speech-making and Southern fried chicken. Some said he had been in favor of appeasing Hitler, but his wartime patriotism was ardent and eloquent. ¶ Lord Halifax (1941-46), who also arrived with a faint aroma of appeasement clinging...
...many a scientist the discouraging moment in life conies when his figures begin to run amok. Figures can bristle like barbed-wire barriers between his data and his conclusions. He -finds that before he can get on with his work, he must multiply numbers as long as his middle finger, divide them, add them, square them, extract their roots. Sometimes a process involving a complicated equation with many variables must be repeated thousands or hundreds of thousands of times. Often the scientist gives up in despair. Many important lines of research have bogged down in a morass of figures...
...many a scientist the discouraging moment in life conies when his figures begin to run amok. Figures can bristle like barbed-wire barriers between his data and his conclusions. He finds that before he can get on with his work, he must multiply numbers as long as his middle finger, divide them, add them, square them, extract their roots. Sometimes a process involving a complicated equation with many variables must be repeated thousands or hundreds of thousands of times. Often the scientist gives up in despair. Many important lines of research have bogged down in a morass of figures...
Died. August Krogh, 74, Danish-born scientist, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology (he discovered the regulation of the motor mechanism of capillaries, took motion pictures of blood cells flowing through the capillaries of living tissue); of cancer; in Copenhagen...
...Paris, a blonde authoress-movie director, Nicole Vedrès, was shooting a film with an all-star cast: Painter Pablo Picasso, Novelist André Gide, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, Architect Le Corbusier, Writer Jacques Prévert, Atomic Scientist Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Their roles required them to enact themselves at work and at play, chatting about what the world was coming to. Said Picasso, who played quiet scenes with Gide (see cut) and mugged with Prévert: "We had a terrific time...