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...Tournelles came by some of his treasures is a question that the museum's curator, Mlle. Olga Popovitch, prefers not to investigate too closely. She does note that the feather-light iron choir grille displayed in one tiny chapel comes from the d'Ourscamp Abbey, on the banks of the Oise, which is still part of an operating monastery. The museum also contains iron jewelry (fashionable in Napoleon's day, when the British blockade prevented the import of finer metals), orthopedic corsets, bird cages, croupiers' roulette rakes, ornate medieval shop signs, kitchen utensils, 3,000 keys...
...amber-colored South American fruit fly known as Drosophila paulistorum at Manhattan's Rockefeller University. He was interested in one particular strain of the fly from the Llanos district of Colombia, and he isolated it from other strains in 1958. Five years later he and his assistant, Dr. Olga Pavlovsky, routinely attempted to interbreed the Llanos flies with similar strains and observe the results of the mating...
...surveyed characteristically by a running description of their ashtrays, water glasses, and pencils. On another visit to the U.N. (one of her favorite haunts) she examines the employee bulletin board and discovers such gems as "meeting of the U.N. Folk Dance Club on folk dances of France, with Mme. Olga Tarassova," then retires to the cafeteria, where she meets a young Indian eating prune yoghurt and listening to a baseball game via transistor radio. "Two to one, Kansas City," he says gloomily...
...Different. The reaction was predictable. Concentration Camp Historian Olga Wormser angrily pointed out that non-Jews had also been forced by the Nazis to collaborate with their murderers. French Writer David Rousset, a non-Jew who survived Buchenwald and other camps, assailed Treblinka for "abounding in racist formulas. In fact, it (racism) is his central point of view." Others noted that the inmates of the Nazi death camps were usually too weak, too demoralized and too quickly put to death to have much chance of forming revolts. Besides, the Jews were no different from...
...mascotte and filet tie boeuf pe-rigourdinc." And so in Soule's will, filed for probate in Manhattan-and leaving the bulk of his estate of more than $1,000,000, including proceeds from the eventual sale of Le Pavilion and his newer Cote Basque, to his widow Olga and sister Madeleine-he bequeathed "a watch to my dear friend J. Edgar Hoover," the FBI's bonded epicurean...