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She could have done anything in the world
BUT THE LADY CHOSE FLEAS
IRIAM ROTHS- CHILD, Lord Rothschild's sister, could have done almost anything in the world she liked. She had good looks, good brains and plenty of money. She chose fleas.
She is a parasitologist, and is considered to be the world's top authority on bird fleas.
the
Selence runs in the Roths child family. Her uncle, late Lord Rothschild, had famous zoological museum at
his place at Tring; the present Sarun who puccasded his uncle
by
EVELYN IRONS
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She broke
leg skiing, and was not al- together lucky ficos either. She tells how
- In- with Brite
patience finite she succeeded in trapping snow- mouse,
only to discover that it harboured son and three single nea.
Although she Mary daughters, ranging from (saven) to Charlotte year)
he was parachuted into occu- with the pied France, was captured and Rundstedt questioned by von and Rommel, neither of whom. realised he was Jew.
He won the MC, Now he runs the mixed farm of 1,200 neres at Oundle, where there is a fine Jersey herd. He and his wife have
likes.to
› not
(one likes to be taken,
尸
What used to be the launaj
Mes
dry is now the lab, where the Rothschild talks
mlatreas of the house retires with racy hu from the hurly-burly of family
mour about her 1937 is another noted life to be alone with her bird
nd ventures scientist. He is chairman of
among parasites.
the Agricultural Research Coun
cil.
Her father, who died in 1923,
was Mr N. Charles Rothschild,
yet another of the great
parasites. She works from 6 to
8 a.m. In solitude.
First catch
Jewish merchant banking fami- SHE caught her first fleas at the
ly to be a zoologis?.
on
A
the
How does sho her capture
gile quarry? It is, she say, not
MIRIAM ROTHSCHILD Regrets? Just one.
she
on
age of five, and anart from As hard as it Miriam Rothschild has pub- four teenage years when (she sounds. The on- ished 40 scitatile papers now regrets) she devoted her swer is-chloro-
bird
parast ez
which abounding energy to cricket.' form. subject tennis, hunting, and squash In 1s an out-of-the way
w a rtime even for a zoologist, and
her the rackets, she has been catching vast know has produced
Atdze book about fiens ever since.
of bird parasiles was tin 10 just to get about in"), them called "Flens, Flukes and That first step in zoology useful to the Government. They were almoay no jewellery Cher Cuckoos" (Collins. 21s.).
was on family
hol day in employed her on research into watch, I noticed, was plain Hungary, Her husband
where her mother, the way wood pigeons spread steel). Her dark hair, flecked who
dled In 1940, came from.
TB among cattle. This caused with iron-grey, grows low ITER co-author in this work is "My father never treated me her to be denounced as a spy her forehead in a widow's peak Theresa Clay, kinswoman of as a child, but made me be several times, Sho took her and is swept plainly back; she the Inte Sir Stafford Cripps and lieve I was helping him in his pigeons with her *when she wears no hat. Sidney and Beatrice Webb, and work," she sa'd. That was how moved around the country with uls related to the present she came to catch fleas from a her husband's regiment, and Lady Rothschild. Miss Clay's
captured mouse In Trans 1 people were sure sne
she used department is bird ice.
them for sending despatches to HE was horrified when I asked Germany on milltary secrets.
If she was interested in "Worst experience Was In
clothes. Up from the country Wales," she said. "There they for a few days, she was scour- added the story that the sack ing the town for riding beneath my bed contained a breeches, explaining that sho two body. It was grain for the was taking up riding again .to teach the children. The tent coat which she wore to lunch in one of the smarter. grill- rooms had no pretensions to Last-minute fashion, although its bright cerise velvet sulted her.
MJES Rothschild Is Mrs George Land at home at Ash len Wold, family estate at Oundle, Nine years ago, she
mar- ried Lieutenant George Lane of the 10th Commando, known during the war as "the best looking officer in the Army.".
A Hungarian by descent, he came to Britain 18 years ago:
vania.
Today the is a handsome woman with an amused expres- slon, a ready laugh and healthy tan acquired on a re- cent holiday In Switzerland, where she taught her elder children to ski (she is pigeons." En expert) and to the astonish- Miss Rothschild is a simple ment of the natives went flea- lifer,
She loves the country, hunting as well..
dislikes cars ("I have an Aus-
A WARTIME BOFFIN
DOES IT AGAIN
New York. BRILLIANT young British scientist-war- time boffin of the Ministry of Aircraft Production-is behind the discovery of a new way to send long dis- tance radio signals that promises to revolutionise communications.
wartime work on radar.
New way of sending long distance radio signals will revolutionise communications
regular static-free broadcasts to New York and London.
No.
money
She drank only tomato julce, refused cigarettes, lunched off
'n slice of melon and a plate of smoked salmon. "I simply
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She said that son Charles, four, was already helping with the fleas.
"I hope
ali This is what. is making the children will ho zoologists," scientists think of eventual she added. "There's no money simultaneous telecasting in or public success in It. Just Britain and America.
complete happiness, For a zoologist, life Con never bo What scientists have done is dull." highly complicated and secret.
In the
sky, above the
all existing worldwide radio stratosphere, lies the ionosphere.
and clearer,
A Cambridge graduate, he is
.0
The degree
as ultraviolet rays, can stir up
a co-
the boy to
He is 41-year-old Henry circuits. In fact, when all other It consists of layers of gasca 60SHE engaged her first nanny only recently, to let har talte George Booker, honoured by the broadcasting goes bad, their to 200 miles up. The New York United States Government for broadcasting signals get strenger signals against these layers. day. She has always looked broadcasters "bounce" their the der chikiren 1 for a holl-
by London's after the children herself. No The State Department hopes They are caught on the Faculty of the School of the new broadcasting will get
nursery meals, either, receiving station.
The Electrical Engineering, Cornell "Voice of America" through the
children cat with their University, Ithaca, New York,
rents. jamming of hundreds of Soviet
will broadcasting stations to the. But forces from the sun, such
school, the As a result of his work, TV Russian people. may one day be sent between
For over a year they sent these layers and cause "ators. London and New York as cally signals on the frequency 49.8 Then
nover went to ordinary transatlantic school, but had a succession of: as it is now sent between London megacycles 800 milea to short-wavo radio, radiophone governesses and tutors, for her and its suburbs.
government experimental and radio plature transmissions father disapproved violently of Booker is only one member of laboratory at Sterling. Virginio, go bad or fade right out. examinations, a team of six scientists nów. They used a diamond-shaped developing the now radio system, antenna; each of the legs 500 feet allowed the signals to go through Miriam never took her dégren
It is thought
that a storm his wishes, after his death, that. It was because she followed But his colleagues generally long. The transmitter uses: 23 Insist it was the result of his kilowatts power-high for very layers Into outer space instead examinations,,Rithaugh","
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But the radio system developed Booker and his team-mates ounces its signals off the storms themselves.
"creative thinking and the high frequency broadcasts. London.
of bouncing them down to first developed in '1050 theory
ho that has brought off the brilliant success,
The maximum sending of the They have regularly produced new system is now 1,200 inEcs, radio signals, both cope and but with rolny stuliona at volcs, not subject to the fading Labrador and Greenland. they, amt-disappearance that bodevita believe it would be easy to send ·
at
the
atudied
London zoology she thinks now that this was University.
mistake, She is recognised. as an authority without it.. But the one thing Miriam Roths -Nowell Rogers in that science degree.
child wants the sho hasn't, got
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