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Outstanding defenseman on the second team since the mid-term graduation of Fred Ecker, has been Doug Bradlee. His defense-mate in John Cowles...
...Frederick H. Ecker, 82, the present chairman, will become honorary chairman...
When TIME'S Education editor, Allan B. Ecker, and Researcher Ruth Brine faced atomic-physicist Robert Oppenheimer for the first time, they were understandably apprehensive. In preparation for the Oppenheimer cover story (TIME, Nov. 8) they had looked over enough morgue material on him to know that his agile mind would be impatient with journalism's question & answer methods. Sure enough, at the first interview's end he remarked: "You know, if you were physicists, I'd fire you. I'm the murderer and you are lousy detectives...
Knowing that the "murderer" often enjoys such a secure feeling during the preliminary grilling-and that the ways of journalism are not the ways of science-Ecker and Brine took this friendly admonition in stride and proceeded to exploit the clues that Oppenheimer had given them about the forces that had shaped his life. Accepting his theory that "education is apprenticeship," they set TIME'S world-wide network of correspondents to work seeking out the men he had apprenticed himself to- from San Francisco to Copenhagen-and cross-checking Oppenheimer's impressions with them...
While this voluminous dossier was being assembled, Ecker and Mrs. Brine spent several days at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, of which Oppenheimer is the head. They came away with enough information to fill a 57-Page report. At lunch in the Institute cafeteria a staff member told them that although the staff, the economists, the humanists, the mathematicians, etc. usually ate at their respective tables, Oppenheimer was at home with all of them. As for herself she added: "There's just no use trying to eat lunch with a mathematician. They won't leave...