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...William Hyde Wollaston (discoverer of the elements palladium and rhodium), a silent, austere recluse, once had a visitor who asked to see his laboratory. Wollaston rang for his butler, had his "laboratory" wheeled in on a tea tray...
...toward the U.S. Embassy, the demonstrators found their path blocked by police squads. In Mexico City's busiest tourist section, they booed at shops displaying U.S. signs, cheered those with German names. At Sanborn's, a U.S. restaurant, they stopped. A student entered and roughed one U.S. visitor at his lunch...
Recently Bernie Baruch had an 8:30 a.m. appointment with a Washington official, talked to him again that midnight. "How can you take it?" the visitor asked. Said Baruch: "As long as there's a German or a Jap left, and a pretty woman to look at, I can stand the pace...
...Prime Minister Winston Churchill's conference with Turkish political and military chiefs at Adana (TIME, Feb. 8) was followed by other visits of British air, land and sea commanders. Latest visitor was Admiral Sir John Cunningham, new British Commander in Chief in the Le vant, who last week conferred with President Ismet Inönü and Premier Sükrü Saracoglu...
...relations with the President are cordial, but strictly in the line of duty. The President doesn't actually wince when Budgeteer Smith enters, but he well might. For the President loves good news and Harold Smith almost never brings any. Every other Administration visitor can occasionally pop in with cheerful tidings. But not Harold Smith: he brings a brief case of woe, problems, figures, trouble, which he and the President must face up to forthwith...