Word: allen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would like to commend TIME on its excellent report on Space and the Radiation Belt, which featured the contributions of my brother, James Van Allen [May 4]. I can attest to the accuracy and sharp insight of your staff in regard to the personal aspects of this story...
MAURICE W. VAN ALLEN...
...members of his family gathered, stayed close at hand: Eleanor Lansing Dulles, his sister, the State Department's Berlin expert; Allen Welsh Dulles, his brother, head of the Central Intelligence Agency; sons John, a mining engineer, and Avery, a Jesuit priest...
...Dulles was a missionary for peace in the cause of freedom, in the deepest meaning of the American experiment. He was born in Washington, D.C. in 1888 and grew up beside the bluffs of grey Lake Ontario at the family home in Watertown, N.Y. There his father, the Rev. Allen Macy Dulles, pastor of the Watertown Presbyterian Church, brought him up to learn long passages from the Bible by heart, to revel in family choruses of Onward, Christian Soldiers and Work, for the Night Is Coming. His boyhood heroes were Paul Revere and John Paul Jones, and his favorite authors...
...Everson learned about religious anarchy at a camp for conscientious objectors during the war. When that was over, his marriage on the rocks, he joined the group of creative and not-so-creative bums around Poet Kenneth Rexroth that began the "San Francisco renaissance." before Beatniks Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg came out from Manhattan and put the movement in the news. "I'm pre-beat," says Brother Antoninus...