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...Germans out of the market, black-listed dealers who could not convince Sir Ernest's executives they would not let their purchases into the Reich. When the British held the Pan-American Clipper at Bermuda and seized U. S. ship mail at Gibraltar, one big object of their search was diamonds headed for Nazi factories. Last week U. S. industrialists might well ponder what a Hitler-dominated cartel could do to mass production...
Einstein once said he expected to devote the rest of his life to the search for a unified field theory which would bridge relativity and quantum mechanics, embrace all phenomena from the atom to the universe. Once he hit on a promising lead-a treatment of space as a double sheet with atomic particles as "bridges" connecting the sheets-but that ran into a dismal dead...
...them started life (after Yale '28) as a floorwalker in Macy's, eager to learn in that temple the arcana of business success. He later got a job with FORTUNE. One was a Chicago boy who (after Yale '27) wandered to Spain, North Africa, Florida in search of the right place to sit down and write. One (an indispensable one) had money: a Yale ('28) esthete whose Manhattan family helped manage the Revolution (1776) and has since been so well-satisfied with itself that it remembers the great Henry James, whom it once...
Picking up Columbus' second voyage (in 1404) at Cape Maisi on the eastern tip of Cuba, the ketch will follow along what the explorer thought was a peninsula on the Asiatic mainland, and trace his expeditions in search of the Emperor of China...
...before, the novelist had visited Rome as a poor but haughty young man, had met a moist old character who took him to see an obscure but radiantly beautiful fountain. Ostensible theme of his book is his skeptical wish to see that fountain again. Actually it is a profounder search for a profounder fountain...