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Derek Wraxton, a $28-a-week War Office clerk, was one of the most elusive spies in the annals of British intelligence. Though he lived stylishly at the Dorchester Hotel, bought a Rolls-Royce, a Jaguar and a string of race horses, it was not until he spent a two-month leave in Moscow that Colonel Barmitage, lean, monocled chief of intelligence, made the astute decision to have him shadowed. Even then, 28 fulltime shadows and twelve auxiliaries dogged his footsteps for a year before Wraxton was caught red-handed with 185 secrets, a ham roll and the Defense Minister...
...Admiralty, a homosexual clerk named John Vassall had managed to live in style and sell secrets to Russia for six years before he was caught (TIME. Nov. 2 ). Though he was sentenced to 18 years in prison. Labor M.P.s in the House of Commons kept the case alive, not only to embarrass the government, but also with the reasonable aim of finding out how the British security system could have been so ineffectual. They had little help from Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft, who seemed to treat the case with man-of-the-worldly flippancy. Thorneycroft breezed: "It's been...
Going to School. The U.S. bishops' school for reporters is evidence of mild ecclesiastical protest against the secrecy that is supposed to cloak the conference. The council did set up a press office of sorts. But Msgr. Fausto Vaillanc, a Vatican clerk impressed as chief press officer, confines himself to distributing the official one-page bulletins in seven languages. To the 300-odd newsmen still in Rome, the handouts are often worse than useless. Designed to report on each day's council conference after its close, the bulletins are sometimes written 24 hours in advance, and they...
Another defendant. Artur Harder, a clerk in the Krupp truck factory in Frankfurt, was accused of having helped Heuser tie victims to a stake, "pour fuel on and light the living sacrifices." Harder said that he was kept so busy cremating bodies in a special incinerator he had devised that he had been able to take off only two days for his honeymoon. Following Harder's testimony, the judges cleared the court of school-age children, apparently on the theory that they were getting too vivid a picture of Nazi horror...
...with it. This is G. H. Hardy's description of his experiences with Ramanujan, certainly the most fascinating article I found in the two volumes. "My job has been merely to copy, paraphrase, and select" writes Newman. Hardy is describing his five-year acquaintance with the unknown Hindu clerk who had, before he was 25 and with the help of just one obscure work of higher mathematics, independently divined answers to problems that occupied Europe's best mathematicians. Hardy writes of his first letter from Ramanujan, and reproduces 15 typical theorems of the 120 which Ramanujan sent him from India...