Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every afternoon, the members emerge from their separate dens for tea and talk. Among them: Albert Einstein, crack Mathematician Oswald Veblen (nephew of famed Economist Thorstein Veblen) and the institute's new boss, Physicist J. Robert ("Oppy") Oppenheimer...
...John Rock '14, a clinical professor of gynecology at the Medical School, will be awarded the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Award of the Planned Parenthood Federation of American in ceremonies at New York Tuesday, the Federation announced last night...
...Fackenthal reply was issued after a group of prominent citizens, headed by Albert Einstein, had denounced the bill as one more step toward military control of American civil life. The group claimed that such domination had already progressed to the point where it "jeopardized our planning for peace." The Einstein report was issued by the National Council Against Conscription...
...Chicago's bleak Northwest Side, Louis Armstrong had blown in town and out again, with his new sextet. Those who knew their way around the neon wilderness of the Negro South Side could still sometimes find Jimmy Yancey and Albert Ammons pounding out noisy boogie in a couple of dingy cafes...
...Died. Albert Mussey Johnson, 75, retired insurance executive, grubstaker of "Death Valley Scotty" and his legend of a fabulous gold mine; after an operation; in Los Angeles. Johnson met Desert Rat Scott in 1904, thereafter kept him supplied with enough money to maintain-for 26 years-the hoax of a private bonanza. Johnson built Scotty a $3,000,000 castle in the '30s, revealed in 1941 that he had also "lent" him $500,000 over three decades. Chuckled Johnson: "He paid me back in laughs...