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Joliot-Curie, French atom scientist, Russian Writer Ilya Ehrenburg and Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. One delegate to get through was Pablo Picasso, Spanish-born painter. "C'est terrible" cried Picasso, describing the thorough security screening of congress delegates arriving on cross-channel steamers...
Professor Cecil Frank Powell, 46, the committeeman who won the $31,715 prize for physics, got his award for developing a simple method of probing the secrets of the atom nucleus with photographic plates, and his discoveries regarding mesons, the particles believed to hold the nucleus together. Powell, who leans to the left politically but denies he is a Communist, told reporters he could not spare the time from his job at Bristol University to go either to Sheffield or Warsaw, even though he backs the congress' aims to the hilt. He declared: "Everything possible should be done...
...many-sided and significant writings, in which he appeared as a champion of humanity and freedom of thought." Russell's most important work, in mathematics and logic, was finished 40 years ago. Since then he has written, sometimes wisely but too much, on morals, politics, China, marriage, atoms, bolshevism and world government. In 1940 a New York court revoked his professorship at New York's City College because he advocated trial marriage for students. When a reporter asked him last week if he was still angry about the 1940 incident, Russell said: "I am not mad at anybody...
...were added, space would have to stretch, carrying the galaxies with it. Why not, asked Bondi and Gold, figure out how much matter would have to be added to make the galaxies recede at the observed rate? The answer, dragged from thickets of mathematics, came out very simple. One atom of hydrogen, they calculated, must be added to each quart of space every billion years...
...Hennings in the primary in his home state, was glad enough to get him in the finals. ¶ In Connecticut, Adman Bill Benton squeaked through over Wall Street Banker Prescott Bush, while Benton's old advertising-agency partner, Chester Bowles, was losing the governorship (see below). Brien ("Mr. Atom") McMahon, who ignored both Benton & Bowles, was easily reelected...