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When German-born Scientist Klaus Fuchs was sent to prison in 1950 for slipping British atomic secrets to the Russians, many of his toughest mathematical chores were taken over by chubby Boris Davison, a top scientist at Harwell. Dr. Davison got a complete security clearance, though he was born in Russia (to a British father and a Russian mother) and his mother still lives in the Soviet Union. When another top atomic scientist, Italian-born Bruno Pontecoryo, absconded to Russia with nobody-knows-how-much secret information, Dr. Davison got another checkup, and was cleared, even though it was known...
Last week, after the Cabinet had discussed his case, the British government revoked Davison's security clearance and decided to send him to Birmingham University to do nonsecret work. There was no allegation of any disloyal act by Davison himself: his integrity was not questioned. Nonetheless, the government had decided that since he has relatives in Russia, he might be subject to blackmail by threats to their safety. The British now accept what the U.S. has long believed: that a man can be a security risk without being disloyal...
...Music Clubs also presented four works by other student composers. Paul Knudson's Piano Sonata seemed to be the most significant of these. Despite passages of atonality, the work as a whole is not forbiddingly abstruse. A Serenade for Wind Quartet by Stuart Feder, Intrada and Dance by John Davison, and a Sonata for Cello and Piano by John Bavicchi were also on the program...
Archibald T. Davison is an institution in Music I, one of the most popular courses in the College, and normally taken before the advanced music history courses. G. Wallace Woodworth, world-renowned conductor of the Glee Club, will teach a course in the symphony as one of the middle group history courses next year...
Thank you so much. Sibyl Mathews, Davison 410 Judy Myers, Davison 406 Vassar College...