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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Chargé, Wingolf University of Erlangen (1935-36) Zion American Lutheran Church Eureka, S. Dak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Self-Expresso. In Tea, S. Dak., a group of citizens founded the Coffee Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 5, 1959 | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...tall, lithe man with greying blond hair, Lawrence never looked his years. Born in Canton, S. Dak. of Norwegian stock, the son of a superintendent of schools, he was a radio tinkerer in high school, worked his way through local Midwestern colleges. His interest in radio led him to a Ph.D. in physics at Yale (1925), and he began studying ionization, the electrification of atoms by loss or gain of electrons. At 27 he was made an associate professor at the University of California, in 1930 conceived the idea of the cyclotron, which has been called "as useful in research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Hard Worker | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...glory. No malice intended, said the geodesists, but with the addition of 586,400 square Alaska miles, the balance would have to move 439 miles northwest -give or take ten miles-to the vicinity of Two Top Peak, a butte eleven wagon-trail miles west of Castle Rock, S. Dak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Middle Muddle | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

...Sioux Falls, S. Dak., a woman mailed 400 Christmas cards on the day before the fateful Aug. 1 with stickers that read: DO NOT OPEN BEFORE DECEMBER 25. In Chicago somebody mailed a letter with a 3? Statue of Liberty stamp plus a penny, stuck to the envelope with Scotch tape. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Lever Bros, finished mailing 3,000,000 soap samples at a rate of 1,000,000 per day, saved $90,000. In Dallas a group of youngsters at the First Methodist Church mailed out their Saturday night program on a thousand 2? postcards, saved the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE POST OFFICE: Now Lincoln! Now Bolfvar! | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

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