Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the Denver Post telephoned David Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and explained that someone had suggested that the phenomenon might be related to "transmutation of atomic energy." Lilienthal snapped: "I can't prevent anyone from saying foolish things...
...jail, Wright tried to commit suicide, and was sent to a mental hospital. The hospital treated him, decided that he was sane, and sent him back to jail. Thereupon his lawyer called in a top-ranking Pittsburgh psychiatrist. Dr. Yale David Koskoff, senior neurosurgeon at Montefiore Hospital, suggested a prefrontal lobotomy (brain nerve-cutting) to revamp Wright's "psychopathic personality." That was all right with the prisoner-and with the court...
What does a striker on the picket line think about? Orrin Cromwell Evans thought about comic strips. Evans was one of the Newspaper Guildsmen whose strike against J. David Stern's Philadelphia Record ended in the Record's collapse (TIME, Feb. 10). He was the only Negro reporter on the staff. As he walked the picket line, he thought hard about a complaint frequently heard among his people: Negroes are usually ridiculed and their way of life distorted in comics drawn by white...
...entrusted. Facts brought out in the sequel rather completely vindicate the AEC at the expense of the Army and corroborate the judgement of Congressmen who placed atomic energy in the hands of civilians. Yet the same group that fought the Atomic Energy Commission and the confirmation of its chairman, David E. Lilienthal, is still trying to put the atom back in the protective custody of the military...
Great Expectations. A fine Dickens story, brought vividly to the screen by Britain's Director David Lean & colleagues (TIME...