Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week it looked as though there would be a new face in Moscow even though Harry Truman stayed in the White House. Leaving ugly, gloomy Spasso House for a vacation in the U.S., Beedle Smith admitted only: "I have handed in my resignation according to form. What the New Year will bring I don't know." Newsmen who watched him pack up all of his personal belongings before he left guessed that he was not planning to come back to Russia...
When he flew home last fall to give Harry Truman a dramatic up-to-the-minute briefing on his campaign train, it was no secret that "Beedle" Smith was thinking seriously of getting out. At the time, most observers expected that a new President would make it easy for him to do so in January...
Last year James Smith, 73, porter at the New York Athletic Club at $31.55 a week, had dropped in on Christmas night on the same kind of errand. This year, from a rumpled paper bag, Smith dumped a cascade of dimes, pennies and other small change that added up to more than $300. Said he: "I'd like for you to give this to the kids at the New York Foundling Hospital...
...James Smith, who lives meanly in a $16-a-month room, could stand some medical attention himself: his hernia bothers him a good deal, but he cannot afford a doctor ("Everything is so dear"). Then how can he afford a charity? "Oh," he explained, "that's different. I'm an old bachelor and I don't have any family, so why shouldn't I help the poor? . . . Every night I put aside whatever change I have in my pockets and save it up and when Christmas comes I take it and give it to charity...
Last week the public learned that five atomic scientists have had their eyes dimmed by cyclotron cataracts. Three of the victims had been working with the University of Illinois' cyclotron. Physicist Lloyd Smith, now 26, helped install it in 1943, and he did not notice a cloudiness in one eye until 1946. When he asked a girl physicist in the laboratory to marry him, he warned her that something was happening to his eyes (she said yes). Now working at the University of California's radiation laboratory, he hopes to have the cataracts removed soon...