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...every day, a steady stream of delegations got the green light to line up before the President and listen to his plans for Brazil. One group of farm leaders stood waiting in his office for what seemed an eternity while Quadros finished scribbling some message. Quadros' old gold Patek Philippe pocket watch ticked on the desk, beige curtains closed out the view, the ever-present portrait of Abraham Lincoln stared down from the wall. "Then," says one of the farmers, "he looked up and started talking without greeting us or asking us to sit down. We stood silently...
Light-Powered Clock. At the annual Swiss Industries Fair in Basel, Patek Philippe & Co. showed off a light-powered clock run by a photoelectric cell that needs to be exposed only four hours daily to any electric source or the sun to be recharged. The clock can store up enough light energy to last a year. Cost: about $500. G. Leon Breitling displayed a new engineer's stop watch with a movable slide rule around its rim, plus five hands and three data dials for calculations of speed and distance. Cost...
...Army and Marshal Pilsudski, but constantly menaced and savagely attacked in Parliament by ever-changing permutations and combination of Poland's 50 active political parties and organizations. Assuming that M. Bartel manages to get his resignation accepted, after all, likely successors to the Prime Ministry include M. Stanislaw Patek, now Polish Minister at Moscow, Minister of Education Kazimierz Switalski, and Director Goretzki of the Agricultural Bank...
...Apology" which prefaces his work, on sale now at the Dunster House Book Shop. Patek writes: "I am indebted to Mr. Logan Pearsall Smith whose "Trivia" suggested the idea and form of this book, but especially to myself, whose untiring efforts to find a printer made this book possible...
...Kapnos," published in duodecimo size by the Southworth Press of Portland, Me., owes its form, the author states, to Logan Pearsall Smith's "Trivia." "Whereas Mr. Smith views life in a pretty way," says Patek, "in the quiet decay of a country gentleman, 'Kapnos,' contrastedly, is written from the viewpoint of youth and of the many wandering thoughts that strike youth and perhaps baffle...