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...Wollaston, Massachusetts, Miss Gordon's play tells, with rich local color, the story of her early passion to be an actress and of how she convinced her parents to let her have a fling at it. The play has humor, pathos, and great insight into both parents and daughter. In addition, it never degenerates into a period version of "Junior Miss" or "Kiss and Tell." This is no small accomplishment considering that the girl connives behind her father's back, has two adulating friends who are as interested in her problems as she is herself, and repulses all advances made...
...other fighting men got the Congressional Medal of Honor, in a homey ceremony on the White House lawn. Reading the citations, Harry Truman got stuck when he came to "Peleliu Island," called on brown-haired, heavy-set Medal Winner Major Everett P. Pope of Wollaston. Mass, to pronounce it. Next time he reached the same name, the President got grins all around by ducking the pronunciation, substituting the phrase "on that same island named a while...
...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...
Platinum & Diamond Dust. A pioneer of powder metallurgy was an Englishman, William Hyde Wollaston, who in 1829 described a process for working platinum, whose melting point (3224° F.) was too high for the crude furnaces then in use. As better furnaces were developed, his technique was little used until about 1910 when U.S. scientists, notably General Electric's William David Coolidge, revived it as the only practical way of making ductile tungsten (melting point 6100° F.) from which thin wires for light bulb filaments could then be drawn through holes in diamonds...
Charles G. Swain '40, 1G, of Wollaston, as teaching fellow in Chemistry...