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Three years ago a Buffalo, N. Y. autoworker named Clayton Woods bought an Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket on Gregalach in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. When Gregalach came in second, Clayton Woods was richer by $886,360. Cried he: "I'll buy that horse Gregalach and keep him in a velvet stall."* To most newspaper readers, stories like Clayton Woods's are of lively interest. Nonetheless, it looked for a time as if the U. S. Press might not be allowed to print this most familiar form of human interest feature. After the Derby of 1931, when...
...Instead of buying Gregalach a velvet stall, Clayton Woods retired, bought himself a Canadian summer cottage, a fine house near Buffalo, where he was living last week. How much money he has left, he refuses to say. He often visits the factory where his old friends work, owns a shabby car in which he goes on solitary hunting trips. *His hasenpfeffer: Use cottontail rabbits. Chop meat into quarters. Put meat in pickling and leave for three days. Cut onions in small pieces and put them in pan until they are golden brown. Add flour. Brown the meat in separate...
...Among them: Ernest Orlando Lawrence, University of California atom-smasher (TIME, July 3); Columbia's Harold Clayton Urey, discoverer of heavy hydrogen (TIME, July 3); Walter Edward Dandy, Johns Hopkins pathologist (TIME, Jan. 8); Otto Struve, University of Chicago astronomer (TIME...
Last week U. S. chemists and physicists girded up their loins for war on their British colleagues. A U. S. discoverer's right to name his own discovery had been challenged from abroad. Scientific relations between the two countries were described as "very tense." Professor Harold Clayton Urey* of Columbia University has baptized the isotope of heavy hydrogen he discovered two years ago deuterium (Greek deuteros, second). He wants deuteron or deuton to be the name of its atomic nucleus. Discussing the matter last December before the Royal Society, Lord Rutherford, head of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory...
...Domestic Relations Court. The Federal Trade Commission was using the courtroom for hearings not on domestic relations but on unholy relations which, the Commission charged, have long existed between Goodyear Tire & Rubber and the world's biggest mail order house. Sears, Roebuck (TIME, Oct. 30). Invoking the Clayton anti-trust laws and the ancient demons of discrimination, monopoly and secret rebates, the Commission attacked the contracts by which Goodyear makes cheap tires for Sears to sell under Sears' brand names. Last week's revelations...