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Burke and his skippers loved nothing better than to bring their tin cans swooping into Blackett Strait, heeling them hard and sending giant waves to wash away Army and Marine latrines standing stilt-deep at water's edge (they tumbled best when top-heavy with occupants). For each such kill, a palm-thatched hut was painted on a destroyer bridge. This sport continued until an admiral, beseiged with Army complaints, collared Burke and roared: "Burke, if you or your men smash any more of these goddam privies, I'll see that...
British Atoms. The Nobel Prize for physics went to Britain's Professor Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, 50. Blackett, like Tiselius, is less a theoretician than a master of physical technique. In 1924, he took the first photograph of the disintegration of an atomic nucleus. In 1929, he developed an electronic tripping device which made cosmic rays take their own pictures...
...start of World War II, Blackett became a key man in Britain's scientific war effort. He developed bombsights for the R.A.F. and antiaircraft techniques for the Battle of Britain, became one of Britain's chief contributors to the development of the atomic bomb...
Last year, Blackett advanced a new theory on the magnetic fields of revolving bodies, including the sun and stars (TIME, June 2, 1947). He is now working on radio astronomy with which he hopes to penetrate the Milky Way galaxy...
Donald Watson Blackett, Newtonville; Richard William Kislik, New York City; John Hood Ryther, Watertown; Jules Martin Weiss, Kew Gardens, N. Y.; George Austin Willenbrink, Louisville...