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...days when John Adams was President of the United States and Philadelphia was something more than a lengthy stop on the Congressional Limited run. The result is a triangle--not the scheme of the researchers, of course--involving a Quaker widow and two clients of her boarding house: the famous, dashing Senator Burr of New York and a shot, clumsy congressman called James Madison. After spirited oratory, the relatively meek Madison inherits the landlady, later to become immortalized in song and story under the somewhat shady epithet of "Dolly...
...when the great, grave, bearded Charles Darwin was a bubbling young naturalist, he began his famous voyage on the Beagle. While crossing the South Pacific, he was fascinated by the ring-shaped coral islands, which he decided to call "by their Indian name of atolls." He wondered about those saucers of coral standing on steep-sided platforms above the deep ocean floor. Why their ring shape? How had they been formed? It was known that reef-building corals did not thrive more than a few fathoms below the surface. Certainly the islands had not grown upward from the depths...
Housed in this latest major addition to University buildings is the already famous Mark I. This is not a German tank but a 51-foot great-grandchild of the humble adding machine, The International Business Machines Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. This shiny mathematical genius, composed of 765,299 parts and 530 miles of wire, has already been at work for the Navy for two years on complex problems of ship construction and ordnance in the basement of Cruft Laboratory...
Died. Baron Robert de Rothschild, 66, who, with his cousin Baron Edouard de Rothschild, headed the Rothschild bank in Paris before the Nazi occupation; of pneumonia; in Lausanne, Switzerland. A lifelong racing enthusiast, he owned one of the most famous stables in prewar France, a private track, a polo field (where he played under the name M. Errer). Another property: Chateau Lafite-Roths-child, producer of one of the world's best red wines...
First of these two defeats came at the hands of the Boston Athletic Association on December 23. A squad composed almost entirely of former Crimson players, including four of the famous Harding family, had no trouble at all in pinning a 6-1 defeat on the weakened pucksters. Without the services of goalie Paul Lavelle, the netmen were at the mercy of a dazzling B.A.A. offense...