Word: account
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...junior scientific assistant at Los Alamos when the first atomic bomb was exploded; she and her mother spent happy weeks together in the rough outdoors of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer's Perro Caliente ranch, although Oppenheimer cabled last week that he did not know them well. By her own account, "something started to stir" in Joan Hinton when the first A-bombs were dropped. "Hiroshima," she scribbled in a frenzied letter, "150,000 lives. One, two, three, four . . . one hundred and fifty thousand . . . Were we to blame?" Most atomic scientists, far closer to the bomb than Joan Hinton, have struggled...
...Tribune get a clean beat. The story: bank examiners found a shortage of $114,000 in the funds of Publisher Sexton's own Citizens National Bank. The deficit, said the examiners, had been used to cover Fronia Sexton's checks, and had not been deducted from her account. Mrs. Sexton admitted that she had ordered the "overdrafts." used largely to finance the Courier. She promptly resigned as president of the bank and was arrested on a charge of embezzlement...
Cabled TIME Senior Editor John Osborne from Hong Kong: "Communist China is therefore not only exploiting Geneva and the cry of coexistence to settle its account with the stubborn anti-Com munists of China. It is seeking to identify the regime with 'peace,' with the worn but still appealing catch phrase, 'Asia for the Asians,' with what Nehru himself calls 'the certain historic change in the balance of forces.' As such. Communist China is bidding for the leadership of Asia-not next year, or next month...
After brooding for nearly a month over an imaginative newspaper account of his daughter Karen's wedding, Author Philip (Tomorrow!) Wylie suddenly decided that the story was all wet in portraying him as a "nervous" father of the bride. To the society editor of the Miami Herald Wylie batted out an explanatory note: "To be sure I was under a slight emotional strain as I came down the aisle with my daughter, owing to the fact that after a couple of false starts she went on with her customary apparent composure-but out of step ... I found myself reflecting...
Steerage Class. In Milwaukee, after Mrs. Fannie Riley found him sleeping in a trunk in her attic and called police, Army Sergeant John J. Yess, unable to account for either the position or the imposition, complained: "This ship has the smallest berth I ever slept...