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Though the signs outside identified it as a hotel, the Cavendish was no place for the unsuspecting tourist. Most strangers who ventured into the dim, cluttered lobby at 82 Jermyn Street were sternly told to try elsewhere. Others, if they were lucky enough to remind the proprietress of some long-vanished Victorian buck or Bostonian pooh-bah, would be clasped to her shapely bosom and regaled with surrealistic reminiscences about old Lord Droopy Drawers and Lady You-Know-'Oo, or "the time we went to Ireland on roller skates...
Rosa Lewis, the cockney genie who conjured up the Cavendish and presided for half a century over its revels, liked to think it was "not an 'otel but an 'ome away from 'ome for my friends." To addicts, "Rosa's'' was not so much home as a Mad Hatter's champagne party. They called Rosa the Duchess of Jermyn Street, and rated her and the Cavendish itself as two of the three most rewarding landmarks in London (with the Tower, which has not taken many boarders since the 16 century). The mid-Mayfair...
Gewgaws & Cherrybums. Last week, ten years after Rosa's death, the Cavendish was meeting the ignominious end that has overtaken many of London's best-loved structures in the postwar building boom. In September it will be torn down to make way for a gleaming new (and conventional) hotel. Through the plain, brick-pointed door opposite famed Fortnum & Mason, movers wrestled a seemingly inexhaustible argosy of odd treasures...
...those fields, Cambridge has led Oxford ever since the 17th century, when legend has it that an apple plopped on Don Isaac Newton's head and inspired his theory of gravity. In its famed Cavendish Laboratory, founded in 1872, Cambridge boasts one of the world's great centers of nuclear research. At Cavendish in 1919, Sir Ernest Rutherford first demonstrated nuclear reaction. Then Sir James Chadwick discovered the neutron; others have gone on to everything from the kinetic theory of gases to isolating the insulin molecule and piercing space with radio astronomy. "When it comes to research," says...
...virus core gets into a cell remained a mystery, even after Dr. Robley C. Williams, a member of Stanley's California team, devised the method of plating the particles with gold or uranium to get clearer electron micrographs. Then, two years ago at Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory, Drs. Sydney Brenner and Robert W. Home made an illuminating refinement on electron micrography, revealing far more intimate details of virus structures and differences, and clues to how viruses work...