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...Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, 35, 20th of his line, who succeeded to the title as a child after his father's death in World War I. A man of many parts (Australian sheep rancher, sailor before the mast, rare-books collector, scientist), he became one of Britain's leading bomb-disposal experts, was blown to pieces (with seven of his staff) by a bomb three years...
With the liberation Joliot assumed charge of the reorganization of French scientific research. His scientist wife, daughter of Madame Curie, shrugs off the dangerous years. Says she: "They [the Nazis] didn't worry me much. They seemed to mix me up with my sister [famed French WAC officer, Eve Curie] and looked somewhat puzzled when they met me, but I never helped them to work out the family relationship...
...President. *When he left the U.S. in 1935, Lindbergh first rented an out-of-the-way 500-year-old house in Sevenoaks, Kent County, England, later bought the barren, out-of-the-way Breton isle of Illiec, lived there for six months near his great & good friend, Scientist Alexis Carrel, now reported held by the F.F.I, as an alleged collaborationist. * In Hollywood, Producer Hunt Stromberg announced plans for a motion picture based on Patton's life, to be called Blood and Guts...
Some economists have regarded the steady expansion of the service industries as a parasitic growth. Social Scientist Grattan rebuts the theory that service industries create no new wealth as "antiquated nonsense." To Grattan, who realizes that technological improvements tend steadily to reduce factory work toward button-pushing by fewer & fewer workers, a higher standard of living means many more services, and thus more opportunity for employment outside factories...
...sessions' most colorful, provocative speaker was side-whiskered, bushy-browed, radical Scientist J. B. S. Haldane, who boomed: "The British people find it difficult to understand the American people and the results may be disastrous for the peace of the world. One reason for this is that their ideas of the American people are largely derived from films filtered through the Hays film censorship. This remarkable organization never allows wrong to triumph or ministers of religion to appear as villains. . . . No wonder we are apt to think of Americans as alternating between violence and smugness...