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Muddling Through. To cope with the problem, BOAC last month sent in a new team. In as chairman, replacing Lord Knollys (rhymes with coals), went 68-year-old Sir Harold Hartley, famed chemist and transportation expert who had managed Britain's aviation gasoline program in World War II. As his managing director, Sir Harold got young (34), handsome Whitney Straight,* ex-R.A.F. pilot and commodore in Britain's Transport Command. Born in the U.S., Straight has lived in England since he was 13. He became a British subject and in his 20s he founded the Straight Corp...
Back in 1907 Emil Fisher, German chemist, painstakingly made an amino chain of 18 units, but chains of 10,000 units and up are already coming out in Woodward's laboratory. The new molecules may even outdo nature itself, which suggests that an entirely new field of plastics may be opened...
...inclination and training Leonard is amply equipped to be TIME'S Science editor. Until he went to Harvard, where he studied three years with the intention of becoming a chemist and then switched to English literature, he had been educated irregularly, mostly by his father, Jonathan Leonard, who taught English literature at Harvard and the University of North Carolina and tried unsuccessfully to bring young Leonard up speaking classical Greek as well as English...
Married. Aerielle Frazer Strutt, 29, daughter of Automaker Joseph Washington Frazer (Kaiser-Frazer); and Eric Eweson, 49, Manhattan fertilizer chemist; both for the second time; in Newport...
Should science be on the defensive, remorseful for having made the Bomb? Among those who think not is quick-smiling, quick-thinking Dr. James Bryant Conant, Harvard's eminent chemist-president, and a top U.S. wartime scientist. Last week, Dr. Conant held a press conference in Manhattan to launch his just-published book, On Understanding Science...