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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Einstein proteges Stefan S. Wilkes and George Bochner both serve on the Princeton Faculty. The atomic-energy-for-military-purposes report, produced by a committee including men from both sources and chaired by Smyth, who holds dual connection, typifies the scope of coordination which can exist, despite barriers of formal organization, in a compact and relatively isolated collegiate center...

Author: By Selig S. Harrison, | Title: Advanced Studies Institute, Opinion Polling Breathe Life into Princeton | 11/8/1947 | See Source »

This unanimous vote followed defeat of the Russian anti-warmongering resolution. Andrei Vishinsky and his Slav-bloc friends started from the premise that private ownership of the means of production leads to war. It followed, in Communist logic, that warmongering could not exist in the U.S.S.R., and must exist in the U.S. The Russian resolution named the U.S., Greece and Turkey as responsible for warmongering. Vishinsky demanded that all U.N. governments punish as criminals any citizens whose words might lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Podzhlgateli Voiny | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Down the river at marbled M.I.T. they follow the Hutchins line on major sports, but minor ones still exist--if in an undernourished condition. Coach James MacDonald's Varsity soccer team meets the fattest of the Engineers' underemphasized athletic squads at M.I.T. this afternoon in the fond hope that the Techmen will provide the same type of fragile opposition as in years past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Booters Battle Downstream Today | 10/29/1947 | See Source »

...Schumann situation is even worse. Kilenyi and Cortot slaughter the etudes symphoniques and Myra Hess distorts the Carnaval, while the toccata, Kreisleriana, and sonatas exist only in ancient and unavailable Victor sets. The other piano works are mostly unrecorded. Liszi and Franck are brutally manhandled by everyone but Petri and Horowitz. Here Louis Kentner typifies the wasted talent: known in America for a few excellent Mozart recordings, Kentner himself considers Liszi his piece do resistance...

Author: By Otto A. Friedrich, | Title: The Music Box | 10/21/1947 | See Source »

...Dirac theory predicts, among many other things, that hydrogen atoms can exist in two different "states"-one stable, the other unstable-which contain the same amount of energy. Lamb & Retherford checked up with ultrashort radio waves (war-developed for radar), and found that this prediction was not correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Criticism | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

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