Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During a routine House debate on naval appropriations last week, Representative Albert Thomas opened his mouth a millimeter too wide. Out popped a shocker. Said Thomas: "We have something far more deadly than the atomic bomb. We have it today-not tomorrow-and furthermore, it's in usable shape." Then Representative Harry Sheppard, chairman of the Naval Appropriations subcommittee, let out more...
Married. Alice Muriel Astor Obolensky von Hoffmannsthal Harding, 34 (daughter of Colonel John Jacob Astor, sister of Vincent); and David Pleydell-Bouverie, 34, U.S.-naturalized grandson of the late British munitions tycoon Albert Vickers; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Reading...
Died. Dr. Albert Soiland, 73, radiologist and cancer fighter; of a heart attack; in Stavanger, Norway. Starting 63 years ago as a Norwegian immigrant, he made a rags-to-riches rise in medicine, founded two schools (American College of Radiology, Los Angeles Tumor Institute), dedicated his near-million-dollar life earnings to cancer research...
Operation Crossroads (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS). Albert Einstein, Mrs. Wendell Willkie, Harold Ickes, Gen. George C. Kenney and many others review the atomic bomb and its effect on U.S. thinking...
...latest highbrow buzz-fuzz is something called "existentialism" (TIME, Jan. 28). This short novel by 32-year-old French philosopher-journalist Albert Camus may help to clear...