On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 09:47:26 -0400, micky
wrote:

In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 24 Sep 2020 13:40:45 -0400, Ralph Mowery
wrote:



I like the story of someone that went around to restraunts and offered a
napkin he had scribbled on for the price of the meal. Over the years
those napkins became probably worth the restraunts he ate in as he
became a famous artist.


During the Manhattan Project, when Enrico Fermi and his crew ate lunch
at the Quadrangle Club, they hired deaf waiter(s) to serve the lunch,
and they had agents assigned to burn the napkins after the meal. At
least any that he wrote on.

.... and yet the Soviets still got all of the research data ... from a
British spy. (Fuchs) It just shows how hard it is to keep a secret.

There are lots of "Picasso and the napkin" stories floating around,
spun just about every way imaginable. I am not sure any of them are
actually true.