Word: condonation
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...taught cornet and was hired on the spot to lead the band in a bigger place that Nick was starting. On opening night, the thin, bashful kid from Providence found himself giving the downbeat to such hot-jazz bigwigs as Trombonist Georg Brunis, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and powerhouse Negro Drummer Zutty Singleton. In the cult-ridden, vociferous world of hot jazz, Hackett became an overnight sensation. Erudite Manhattan jazzophiles went learnedly ga-ga over Hackett's musical kinship to the late great Bix Beiderbecke. Author Dorothy (Young Man With a Horn) Baker came night after...
Government jobs don't look very attractive these days to U.S. scientists. The widely publicized attack by the House Un-American Activities Committee on Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the National Bureau of Standards (TIME, March 15), has helped scare other valuable scientists away. Last week the Atomic Scientists of Chicago, Inc. (all of whose members worked on the atom bomb project in wartime) offered some proof of how the rank & file of science feels about Government service...
...treatment that Dr. Condon got from the Thomas Committee made nearly all atomic scientists hopping mad. They objected particularly to the Committee's habit of "trying" cases in the newspapers without giving the victim a chance to defend himself. Many wrote long, violent replies to the questionnaire, predicting that such irresponsible attacks would cause the Government to lose its' best scientific talent. Seventy-five percent of the scientists questioned stated that the Condon affair had made them more reluctant to go into Government service. It has made 12% of them "decide to decline any such offer...
Finding the range in their half of the second, the Terps picked up one run on John Condon's line single to right, but Harvard came back in the top of the third for its final run of the day and a 3 to 1 lead. Ralph Beach made it 3 to 2 in the fifth when he clouted one over the new fence...
...really wanted to campaign against scientists, even Thomas wouldn't have started with a man as guiltless as Bureau of standards head Edward Condon," Professor Weisskopf said...