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Director of operations at the Port Hope refining plant is Marcel Pochon, a tall, well-knit Frenchman who once studied under the saintly Pierre Curie. Born in Versailles 48 years ago, Pochon graduated in chemical engineering at the School of Physics and Industrial Chemistry in Paris, studied dyestuff chemistry in Germany, was at War for four years in the French artillery, worked in various laboratories in France and England. In 1932 he joined Eldorado Mines, supervising the transportation and installation of all equipment for the Canadian refining plant. Marcel Pochon speaks fairly good English with a strong accent, wears modish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radium | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...Chemistry, tutorial instruction would probably accomplish little, as the field is well-knit. The flexibility in advanced course work gives the exceptional student ample opportunity to expand, and formal classification of students into Group A and Group B would be superfluous. It would seem desirable, however, to force the students in the field who would normally fall into Group B to integrate their material for a general examination at the end of the college career. They would at least know as much chemistry at graduation then, as they had at any point earlier in college. Such familiarity is unusual, because...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IMMINENT EMINENCE | 5/20/1937 | See Source »

...Dark, well-knit, young Beveridge Webster is a good swimmer, takes pride in his tennis, likes to play poker or bridge with his great good friend Igor Stravinsky. He boasts of the little slam he once made against Sidney Lenz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Maestro & Prodigy | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

...analysis of the human material of the colonies, those "lascivious sonnes, masters of bad servants, and wives of ill husbands" whose doings fill the criminal records and who were occasionally punished by being nailed to the pillory by the ears. Spies moved freely among them, since Spain maintained a well-knit espionage apparatus to keep informed on the progress of the feeble British outposts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Origins | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...SHIPBUILDERS-George Blake-Lippincott ($2.50). Well-knit tale, a little on the sentimental side, about the decline of Glasgow shipbuilding as it hit a humane employer and a group of his one-time employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 30, 1936 | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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