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Says modest Dr. Waksman: "I get students from all over the world, and sometimes I learn more from the student than he learns from me." Such a student came to Waksman in 1924 to work for his Ph.D.: a young (23) Frenchman named René Jules Dubos. Waksman turned Dubos loose on the activities of microbes in reducing plant fibers to humus...
...offer the guess that Painter Rowe found his inspiration for David in the famous 1941 photograph of a Frenchman mourning his country's defeat...
Only five of the 500 knew the answers to all twelve questions; every colonial official in the sampling flunked the test. One Frenchman thought that the Mississippi was the longest river in the French empire. Guesses on the empire's population ranged from 30 million to 300 million. A parliamentary undersecretary located the French Atlantic island of Marie Galante as "near Tahiti," which is in the Pacific...
Holland seems actually better off than France and Italy in spite of having meat rationing and insisting that tourists keep track of the money they spend. A sure sign of this is that man in Holland is offended if you refuse the cigarette he offers while the Frenchman or Italian does not expect you to take...
...Japan. Once again a roar of motors responded and the old commander's new squadron, a fleet of seven jaunty green motorized pedicabs, went putt-putting down the macadam road on their test flight. They have the name "Qu' avec"-a Japanese notion of the way a Frenchman might say "With whom?" "I call them 'Qu' avec,'" simpered Tanaka, "to indicate that boy & girl might get together pleasantly in pedicab...