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...invasion of Germany, the Army had learned which German scientists were important, and where most might be found. With each wave of U.S. troops, and sometimes ahead of advance units, went skilled scientists-hunters. The Army told who some of these scientists were, and where they were working: Fort Bliss, Tex. and Dayton, Ohio...
Lucky Rocketeers. Last week 120 V-2 men were living in former hospital buildings at Fort Bliss. According to Major Hamill, who commands them, their group is almost as complete as it was at Peenemünde. With the Germans came stacks of documents: plans, blueprints, sheets of experimental data...
First job of the rocket men at Fort Bliss was to pass on to qualified Americans everything they knew about rockets. This took millions of words of interrogation: hundreds of U.S. officers and civilian experts passed through their camp, absorbing what the Germans could teach them, which was plenty. By Ordnance Department calculation, they saved the U.S. ten years of research, millions of dollars...
Some of the Germans, in relays, were sent to White Sands Proving Grounds, 70 miles north of Fort Bliss, where they taught Americans to fire the V-2s assembled from Nordhausen parts. Last week they were still at work there. White Sands had grown to a great laboratory, staffed with Ordnance, Air Forces, Navy and civilian (General Electric Co.) personnel...
...Bliss, the former Ambassador to Argentina, and his wife spent many years, assembling a collection of Byzantine, and early Medieval art which is one of the finest in America. It includes the two most important Byzantine sculptures in the United States. In 1941, this collection, together with an extensive art library, was given to the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Since that time the Dumbarton Oaks collection has been supervised by the Fogg Art Museum, which has undertaken an ambitious program for synthezing Byzantine art and architecture. The plan has been to make Dumbarton Oaks a "top story...