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...trio of Midgley, Wilson and Frolich have more in common than just their arcane researches. Midgley reminded the Society that he and Wilson had not only been born in the same town (Beaver Falls, Pa.), but had been delivered by the same local doctor, and had used the same crib, which Midgley's parents passed on to the Wilson family. Wilson graduated from M.I.T. and became a major in the chemical warfare branch of the U.S. Army at 25. Frolich is also a graduate of M.I.T., like Wilson was a member of its potent Research Laboratory of Applied Chemistry...
...Sports Writer Arthur Daley began authoring Kieran's "Sports of the Times" column. Even then readers may have failed to notice the difference, because Daley's first effort was extremely Kieranesque. In a discussion of the Oregon State and New York City College basketball teams, both called "Beavers," Columnist Daley referred to an Oregon beaver as Castor Ore-goniensis and to a City College beaver as Castor Nova Eboracensis...
Britain's gabbiest second fronter-the fierce-tongued Lord Beaverbrook-could never go to bed until his R.A.F. elder son had phoned him: "All's well-goodnight!" For Wing Commander Max Aitken, 32, is the apple of the Beaver's eye. Some said it was the Beaver who got Max grounded in the Air Ministry last year. But it was only temporarily. Flying a Beaufighter, Son Max landed last week with a cocky message for the Beaver: he had bagged two Nazi bombers over Britain, bringing his total to twelve...
...late Paddy Finucane (TIME, July 27), curly-haired, handsome Max, D.F.C., is one of Britain's aces. In London, at week's end Czecho-Slovak President Eduard Benes announced that young Max would get another decoration: the Czech War Cross. That made two things Benes and the Beaver shared in common-a high regard for Wing Commander Aitken and mounting impatience for a second front...
...longest-drawn-out casting to-do since Gone With the Wind, the juicy role of Maria in the forthcoming cine-version of For Whom the Bell Tolls went to dancing Musicomedienne Vera Zorina (born Eva Brigitta Hartwig). "Her hair . . . was but little longer than the fur on a beaver pelt," wrote Ernest Hemingway of his heroine, so off came the dancer's ash-blonde glory...