Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...COLONEL R. V. C. BODLEY
Daughter of a substantial family of professional soldiers, Mathilde Carre was on the loose in Paris just after the German conquest. She was young, attractive, divorced, and she found it all too easy to have a good time. An ex-captain of the Polish army got her into the Réseau Interallié, an important network of the Franco-British underground. This Pole, a handsome man named Roman Czerniawsky, had been an intelligence officer. With Mathilde's brilliant help, he was soon feeding the British war office valuable information on the German order of battle. Mathilde...
...Proto" for "Plomb." Los Angeles' Plomb Tool Co., which closed its plant after a U.S. district court ruled that it was illegally trading on the reputation of Philadelphia's Fayette R. Plumb, Inc. (TIME, Dec. 6), reopened-with a new trademark. Instead of "Plomb," it was now "Proto." Plomb President Morris Pendleton, who is appealing the decision, said the new trademark was just a temporary expedient (estimated cost: $130,000) to resume business. "We have been handed a lemon," said he, "so we are making lemonade...
...National Cancer Institute awarded the College $30,615 "to support laboratory and clinical research in cancer," Federal Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing announced yesterday. The Institute distributed 18 grants totalling $209,838, of which $20,000 went to the Boston University School of Medicine and $9,000 to Tufts College Medical School...
These men are officers of the University Police Force, under the command of Chief Alvin R. Randall. They have been locking the same gates in the same way year after year; only a blizzard or a fire interfered with their duty. And year after year students quietly walked four blocks out of their way every time they wanted to pass through the south margin of the Yard after dark. The great circle route became a habit; it was well on its way toward tradition...