Charlestown Navy Yard/rope making. Center section of the breaker machine showing comb-like teeth that separate the hemp. The inventor got the idea from watching his wife comb her hair.

He Made It--Secretary of State Dean Acheson, after a flight from Washington plagued by mechanical difficulties, has a happy smile on his face as he is greeted in Honolulu by Richard Casey, Australian minister for external affairs (left), and Clifton Webb (right), New Zealand foreign minister. Acheson arrived in Honolulu yesterday, 24 hours late, to attend a Mutual security conference between the U.S., New Zealand and Australia.

Fox Conner C.C.C. Camps

A fly. J. Merrill & Son, booksellers and stationers, 37 Merrimack Street, Lowell, Mass.

January century, an article by Theodore Roosevelt