Word: derring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, two months after the suspects had been found, the FBI arrested von der Luft and Wallis. They were charged with stealing Government property...
Both men were carefully checked before the Army assigned them to the Los Alamos atom-bomb plant in 1944. Heavy-set Alexander von der Luft, 23, had been born in Wilmington. His father was an official of the American Cyanamid and Chemical Corp. at Bridgeville, Pa. Von der Luft had interrupted his study of chemical engineering at Princeton University to enlist. He was quiet and studious. Earnest Wallis had been born in Indianapolis in 1913. He had left school to go into commercial photography in Cleveland. His father was a railroad auditor of modest means...
...traced von der Luft to Princeton, where he had returned to finish his engineering studies. In his room, they found over 200 pages of handwritten notes and documents on atomic processes, other data in the family safe in his home in Mount Lebanon, Pa. Wallis was run down in Chicago late in May. Carelessly thrown in a drawer in his studio were over 200 photographs and negatives pertaining to atomic bomb tests and machinery...
...orchestra excelled when they played Richard Strauss' waltzes from "Der Rosenkavalier," and the suite from "Carmen." These two stand-bys put the audience into just the mood into which they wanted to be put, and the two Khatchourian dances, at once delicate and vigorous, led to "Finlandia," which rounded out the first half of the program. After the intermission, Benjamin Britten's variations on Rossini provided a brilliant modern interpretation of this airy, yet worldly, composer...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Berlioz' Rákóczy March, Beethoven's Egmont Overture, selections from Bizet's Carmen, waltzes from Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and Khachaturyan's Gayane, Sibelius' Finlandia. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler...