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...Champlain stopped at Quarantine. Manhattan ship reporters leaped aboard, gathered in the children's play room. Professor Piccard reluctantly (he fears the Press; TIME, Jan. 16) descended from the captain's bridge, sniffed at the reporters, ran. They were smoking, "a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking...
...Manhattan pier were Twin Jean Piccard, Mrs. Jean Piccard (also a twin), their sons Jean Auguste, Paul, Donald. Physicist Auguste and Chemist Jean embraced,† Uncle Auguste pulled a black beret from an overcoat pocket, offered it to Nephew Jean Auguste...
After hasty acclimatization in Manhattan, Professor Piccard went to Washington, was received by President Hoover. In his schedule was a lecture before the National Geographic Society, a conference with President Paul Weeks Litchfield (Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp.), a meeting with the Lindberghs...
...York Evening Post was the only Metropolitan newspaper to develop the story in Chemist Jean Piccard. The article swiftly became a significant, lucid disquisition on identical twins, i.e., twins conceived in the same ovum as were Auguste & Jean Piccard.* Said Chemist Jean Piccard: "It is a well-known fact that usually one of two identical twins is left-handed while the other one is righthanded. It is well known also that there are many more left-handed persons who never had any twin...
...Their father was Jules Piccard, professor of chemistry at the University of Basle. A third son, Paul, helped install the first hydro-electric turbines at Niagara Falls...