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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flying Neutrons." He found, said Jordan, "a lot of blueprints and maps and engineering drawings and scientific data" labeled "Oak Ridge, Manhattan Engineering District." Major Jordan had never heard of the Manhattan Project, but he noted the words down. He inspected a blueprint and noted that it read: "Walls five feet thick of lead and water to control flying neutrons." He also found, he said, a note on White House stationery, "which impressed me because it had the name of Harry Hopkins printed in the upper left-hand corner. I jotted down part of the message. It said...
...That is very possible," said the flustered witness, "but I don't recall it." During the luncheon recess. Government lawyers looked up the 1939 transcript, found no such testimony. Confronted with the evidence, and lectured by the judge for his conduct. Hallinan insisted, "Anything I can do to show this man is lying I'm entitled to do ... I set out to trick...
...days, frustrated Lawyer Hallinan tried by every trick he knew to rattle Schomaker, and found himself instead an unwilling straight man in Shoes Schomaker's comic routine. Hallinan tried to show that Shoes had too good a memory of events that took place years ago: "You even said Bridges got out on the left side of the car and you got out on the right." "I guess Bridges was more left than I was," cracked the witness...
...Crosby how it feels to be an "unemployed actor": "It's wonderful, this freedom. You can live on the money you save on aspirin. The only trouble is, I keep thinking of jokes and I don't know what to do with them." As for TV, Allen found it "too graphic. In radio, even a moron could visualize things his way; an intelligent man, his way. It was a custom-made suit. Television is a ready-made suit. Everyone has to wear the same...
...Please-no more," pleaded Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman, who found his mail loaded with paperweights after the newspapers ran a story last month saying that he collected the things as a hobby. Among the whatnots he was sent by well-wishers: a weighted mahogany gavel, a glass basin filled with coins, a porcelain pig, a bronze nude in a bronze bathtub...