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A wartime observatory observed

Ben Gascoigne, a young New Zealand physicist, stepped off the train at Canberra station. It was August 1941. A tall, good-looking man strode across the platform to greet him. ‘Woolley’ he said, offering his hand, ‘Do you play bridge?’. That evening Ben Gascoigne found himself seated at a bridge table in Woolley’s residence at the [...]