Word: griffon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gilded early Italians through paintings by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens and Hals, and on into a luxurious display of French impressionists. Included for the first time were 33 brand-new purchases which had not even been seen in Sao Paulo. Centerpiece of the show: a fine Renoir, Baigneuse au Griffon, a nude against a background of muted brown...
...judge had a ticklish task. Which one of the six dogs would he choose? English setter, wire-haired dachshund, Welsh terrier, Brussels griffon, standard poodle or Doberman pinscher? Each dog had been trained to the tail tip, each had survived a two-day ordeal of poking and prodding by judges. Each was the best of its breed and the best of its group. Now, from all the 2,451 dogs originally entered last week in the 76th annual Westminster Kennel Club Show at Madison Square Garden, the judge had to choose one as the best...
Last April, Griffon and Barbaud announced their strange new use for atomic energy. But not until last week did they have the satisfaction of seeing the method used in a criminal investigation. A strand of Mme. Duflos' hair was irradiated in Zoé. Later, in the secrecy of the judge's chambers, Toxicologist Griffon reported the results of the test, named the date when unfortunate Mme. Duflos first swallowed a dose of arsenic...
...France, where arsenic has been a popular eliminator since the days of the famed Marquise de Brinvilliers,* this lack of precision troubled Henri Griffon, toxicology specialist for the Paris prefecture of police. He discussed the problem with his old friend, Captain Jean Barbaud, physicist and fellow graduate of the Val de Grâce military hospital. Together they worked out an answer. They brought the hair from a known arsenic victim to "Zoé," the atomic pile at Châtillon. For eight days they bombarded the hair in the pile's neutron flux. Then, when the elements...
This week, while suspect Duflos remained in jail, the judge set off on a month's vacation before deciding whether or not to order a murder trial. The hair from Mme. Duflos' head, safely locked away in Griffon's safe, will be waiting. "If there is any dispute," says Griffon proudly, "we can radioactivate the hair again. The evidence is permanent...