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Last week both were changing. Westminster faced an impending rule requiring public (i.e., private) schools to accept scholarship children for at least 30% of their enrollments. Even if they returned to their top hats, Westminster boys would have to doff them to Socialist Ministers of the Crown. Meanwhile, they went about London in the shockingly plain grey flannels they had worn in Herefordshire, to which they were evacuated before the blitz. Westminster would never be quite the same...
...Henderson and Rose Parrott, within six weeks of each other, had spurred Congress into appropriating the money. The lab will be divided into six isolated sections, each devoted to a single type of disease (e.g., tularemia, scrub typhus, influenza, fungus infections). Reporting for work, each Institute employe will doff his street clothes in one room, put on laboratory clothes in another. He will handle germs by slipping rubber-gloved hands into hand holes, under a carefully ventilated glass hood. The automatically sterilized animal rooms will be arranged so that air blows from the worker toward the animals, never the other...
...Paris. Last week Paris celebrated; the sniper-infested ancient capital of Alsace could not. The Consultative Assembly sang and cheered. In the Place de la Concorde mounds of flowers banked the massive grey stone statue dedicated to Strasbourg. Through the day Parisians walked through the great square, to doff their hats at the statue. At night, midinettes celebrating the spinsters' feast, St. Catherine's Day, kissed many a G.I. who had never been near Strasbourg...
...after the run the plane is pressurized again by opening an intake valve. The men can then doff their masks and heavy clothes, fly home in comfort...
When a man retires, he usually retires. Not so Bishop John Chamberlain Ward of Erie, Pa. Last week, retiring because of age (he is 70 and the Episcopal Church's Bishops can doff their "magpies,"* draw their pensions at 68), Dr. Ward volunteered for a year's missionary service. No other retiring Episcopal Bishop has ever done such a thing. Dr. Ward's mission: St. Peter's Church, Seward, Alaska...