Word: interview
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Darlan claimed no direct credit for scuttling the French Fleet at Toulon; he did not pretend in this interview that he had ever thought of handing it to the Allies before they entered North Africa. Said he: "After the Armistice the Fleet had orders to scuttle their ships before allowing them to fall into alien hands. So long as I was in command, the order stood and was renewed from time to time. The current Laval government opposed that order. Therefore it was probably the Admiral [Jean de Laborde] commanding the Fleet at Toulon who issued the order...
...Vienna, Sigmund Freud was invariably "out of town for reasons of health" whenever Dali sought an interview. Dali "held long imaginary conversations with Freud," saw him one night "clinging to the curtains of my room in the Hotel Sacher." Several years later Dali was eating snails in a French town, suddenly saw a newspaper photograph of Freud. Dali uttered a loud cry. Says he: "I had just that instant discovered the morphological secret of Freud! Freud's cranium is a snail!" Dali eventually met Freud. But only when Dali's voice "became involuntarily sharper and more insistent . . . before...
Stating that revengeful humiliation or the dismemberment of Germany should not be a part of post-war plans, Gordon W. Allport, associate professor of Psychology, denied in an interview yesterday that the German people are innately aggressive...
...Holmes, president of the American Chemical Society and head of Oberlin's chemistry department, has long worked on vitamins and body chemistry, was first to isolate pure vitamin A in crystalline form (TIME, April 26, 1937). In an interview last fortnight he listed other recent uses for vitamin C: intravenous injection of one gram in solution for shock (another instance when blood histamine is high); in wound healing; for insomnia; in treating industrial workers exposed to toxic dusts. If people taking vitamin C by mouth are troubled by its acid reaction, he advises them to mix a little bicarbonate...
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