Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lesser powers are concentrating on research rather than plutonium production-and they have some of the world's most brilliant atomic scientists. Niels Bohr, who back in 1939 pointed out theoretically that it was the rare U-235 which underwent fission when bombarded by slow neutrons, heads the Danish program. Two other Nobel Prizewinners, Manne Siegbahn and Theodor Svedberg, lead the work at Sweden's new laboratories. The Swiss Federal Council has voted over $4,000,000 for atomic research...
...wartime series by one "Colonel Thomas Rainsboro," attacking Churchill's military strategy, stirred the greatest tempest in the Tribune's decade. It was widely attributed to Field Marshal Wavell, but was probably written by cocky, brilliant Frank Owen, like Foot a onetime Beaverbrook boy and now acting editor of the Daily Mail...
...became conductor of the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Paris' oldest symphony orchestra, soon had a following of hundreds of French women who bought season tickets for concerts of "le beau Charles," without even caring what he was to play. The Conservatoire directors cared, though. They admitted that he got brilliant tone quality out of his musicians, but they did not share his enthusiasm for contemporary music. Three months ago the directors ordered him to conduct more familiar symphonies. Munch resigned. (He could afford to: his wife, a Swiss condensed-milk heiress, is a very wealthy woman...
...boss of the War Shipping Administration's small vessels, he ran a fleet of hundreds of tugs, including those of private companies such as his own. His most brilliant feat was Operation Mulberry. The British had constructed two floating harbors, each the size of Dover. The 150 huge concrete caissons and 60 blunt-nosed ships (which formed the breakwater) were to be anchored off the Normandy beaches. But the problem of towing them across got so snarled up that Ed Moran was finally called in to straighten it out, was put in charge of the whole operation...
...Capra's contribution, which includes co-authorship of the script, it is consistently brilliant, but at its most apparent best in a scene in which Stewart sees how things would be if he had never been born. Such touches of fantasy usually are done with the hero on the sidelines, peacefully observing what goes on. Capra makes the scene doubly effective by having Stewart right in its middle, not fully believing or understanding what's happening, and actually going through a desperate and painful experience. It is this combination of reality and fantasy, the merging of the elements of both...