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McCarthy's principal quarry was Edward Rothschild, for 20 years a bookbinder in the vast Government Printing Office. Had Rothschild ever been a Communist? The question was highly pertinent because the GPO prints, along with its many dull governmental publications, secret military reports, and advance texts of important documents like Supreme Court decisions and the U.S. budget. Rothschild refused to answer, ducked behind the Fifth Amendment. Had he ever stolen a secret code from the office? Had he spied against the U.S.? The answers were the same-no answer. That afternoon, the GPO suspended the reticent bookbinder without...
...large, Hugh has enjoyed his work. He has been able to earn his living in a fascinating branch of science that makes a study of rare and beautiful creatures. He has also enjoyed the society of Britain's leading lepidopterists. Before he died, Lord Walter Rothschild was a steady customer; today, Sir Winston Churchill depends on the Bexley farm to supply him with butterflies for his garden parties. (The Newmans once supplied Tortoiseshells and Peacocks on short notice, at other times have stocked the Chartwell grounds with the larvae of Painted Ladies.) Biggest satisfaction of all: Hugh...
Walter S. Rothschild 3L of New York City and 37 Mellon Street, at the University of Paris; and Jacob B. Robbins 3GSD, at the Technical College, Delft...
Mayr is currently Curator of the Whitney-Rothschild Collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. His appointment here becomes effective July...
...gale whipped the trees along Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard and tore at the policeman on guard before the Soviet legation to Israel. While he patrolled the front, someone neatly clipped a hole in a wire fence at the rear, crept through and placed a bomb-six pounds of high explosives in a thin metal container-against a wall of the somber grey stone legation. The bomb went off with a crash that shook Tel Aviv and sent diplomatic shock tremors across the world...