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...less serious plane, if Dr. Donald Glaser thinks that he has my permission to give away my long-cherished and TIME-honored white vest, I have a correction...
...McMillan wore the white vest in 1951, when he got his Nobel Prize, later loaned it to Dr. Glaser...
...Stockholm. Physicist Donald Glaser, who had gone to Stockholm to receive a Nobel Prize, was trailed from Stockholm to London to Geneva, where he was finally found relaxing at a ski resort. To TIME'S reporter, the few moments he finally had with Glaser added up to a "vest-pocket" interview. To the scientist, the care and thoroughness of TIME'S investigations into his life and his work made it seem as if he had been under surveillance "by armies of TIME reporters ever since I set foot on European soil...
Donald Arthur Glaser, 34, wore an evening waistcoat that was yellowed with age when he stepped up to receive his Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's King Gustav VI Adolf early this month. The old vest, he explained, had been worn by two other Nobelmen, Edwin McMillan and Emilio Segre, before him, "and I guess I'll pass it along to somebody else for some future Nobel ceremony." Chances are, Glaser himself may some day want it back for just that reason. Having reached top rank in his field with his invention of a bubble chamber for photographing atomic...
...group. The ambassador was as well the guest of his classmate (Harvard-1906), Arthur N. Holcombe, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, at the latter's seminar on the American Executive. He impressed the students there as the true diplomat--distinguished white hair, pince-nez, well-filled vest, and a distinct, erudite speech with a slight European accent...