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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Julius Peter Hell, 60, of Wisconsin, born on the Rhine, self-made millionaire (furnaces, tanks, snowplows),paternal employer...
Forty-four-year-old, Maryland-born Mr. Magruder works in a half-furnished office across the way from Mr. Andrews', flicks cigaret ashes on the floor, shares his superior's casual approach to a difficult task...
...Duchess of Gloucester, first royal family member to accept the thrice-married, U. S.-born Duchess of Windsor as a social equal, was reported to have been "very gracious." British newspapers noted the meeting in a few stilted lines but gossipy U. S. newsorgans speculated that the Duke & Duchess of Windsor would be invited home for the traditional royal Christmas season at Sandringham, that the Duke might soon be given a job abroad such as the Duke of Kent was given, that the pleased Windsors had promised to abandon plans for a U. S. trip until...
Speleologist Casteret has explored more than 500 caverns and underground water courses, mostly in the Pyrenees where he was born. He has. in the words of a colleague, "made the subterranean Pyrenees his own, and this is a promising chapter in applied hydrogeology." In Ten Years Under the Earth, a book full of first-rate scientific adventure which has been saluted by the French Academy of Sciences, he relates, among many others, this plunge into the Earth's dark bowels...
...Born in Rome 37 years ago, Enrico Fermi was introduced to the atom at the University of Pisa, continued his acquaintance with it at Göttingen and Leyden, joined the University of Rome faculty in 1927. Short, wiry, dapper and cheerful, he has visited the U. S. several times, speaks heavily accented English, likes skiing, tennis. Some time ago Benito Mussolini, who is not insensitive to the prestige of Italian science, saw to it that Fermi got a fine new laboratory...