Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prizewinner, left Fascist Italy before the last war, continued his researches at Columbia University and became a U.S. citizen. He was a top man on the team that put the first chain-reacting pile to work in Chicago in 1942. Last week he prescribed energy and vigilance as antidotes for panic: "American supremacy is predictable up to 20 years if we work hard. As for me, I expect to sleep as well as my insomnia permits. I'm a fatalist by nature, anyway...
...high state, no thought of pressure or promises, no hint of alliances or pacts, no talk of loans or investments. In a packed 3½ weeks' schedule, Nehru would speed from Washington to San Francisco, look in at New York and other cities, speak at the universities of Chicago, California and Wisconsin, inspect farms and factories, Mount Vernon, Hyde Park, the National Gallery of Art, TVA and White Sulphur Springs. The big emphasis would be on getting him acquainted with the productive panorama of U.S. life...
Grandfather of the Year (named by Chicago's Grandfathers and Grandmothers Club): Vice President Alben W. Berkley ("all the world loves a lover"). Grandmother of the Year: mad-hatted Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper ("interested in everything that women are interested...
...Washington, St. Louis, Cincinnati and a dozen other cities, buses and streetcars have been wired for sound. (Moaned a Washington bus rider: "Wasn't it Hitler who tried to drive the Austrian chancellor crazy by forcing him to listen to the radio?") In many places, including Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh and southern New England, grocery stores were blaring music and commercials. (Stanley Joseloff, president of Storecast Corp. of America, said happily: "It's radio plus. We get a 100% listening audience at the point of sale because everyone who's there has to hear...
...With the Chicago Symphony, Conductor Victor de Sabata bowled over an ecstatic opening-night audience - and the critics - just as he had in Pittsburgh last year (TIME, Nov. 22). Said the Sun-Times's Felix Borowski: "By all odds . . . the most fiery of any of the conductors who have appeared here in recent years...