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...locally as The Hut), they had a magpie's nest of old books and model molecules strung like mobiles from the ceiling. Debonair and carefully dressed, Crick always managed to look incongruous there; Watson, tieless, rumpled and far more casual in his dress, fitted the picture perfectly. New Zealand-born Wilkins, tall, blond and courtly in the British manner, worked with Dr. Rosalind Franklin (who died in 1958) in a laboratory in London...
...weird, bodiless, placeless woman, Thora Pattern, from whose papers the story purports to be taken. Roving back and forth in time, to and fro in her subjects' minds, Thora Pattern records the edge-of-the-alphabet lives of three people seen on a boat trip from New Zealand and in London after...
When the Old Vic repertory company toured Down Under early this year, New Zealand Beer Baron Sir Ernest Davis, 90, turned up at the Auckland theater for a gander at Actress Vivien Leigh, 48, playing Marguerite Gautier in Dumas' The Lady of the Camellias. So smitten was Sir Ernest with vibrant Vivien that he hurried backstage after the performance, wined and dined the cast, kept in touch by occasional long-distance phone calls when she returned to London, and on one occasion promised to remember her in his will. Last month Sir Ernest died-and his will...
...kind of permanend damage seemed to have allayed most fears. Most of the scientists who had opposed the test on the ground that it might do longlasting damage to the earth's upper atmosphere and the Van Allen radiation belts were reserving Judgment. Scientists in New Zealand, the country most affected by the blast, treated it as an intereating scientific experiment--and a pleasure to observe...
...that he has stopped playing it and now talks all night to anyone who calls him, letting his listeners in on both ends of some pretty fascinating conversations. His midnight to 6 a.m. program is heard from San Francisco to the Canadian border and as far west as New Zealand, and it has made such a hit with listeners that KEWB hopes to hook up with a sister station in Los Angeles to give Jackson the entire West for an audience. Comedian Mort Sahl, who has rigged up a special antenna in his backyard in Los Angeles in order...