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Hahn's innate caution stopped him from making so bold a claim in public. "As nuclear chemists," Hahn and his young collaborator, Fritz Strassmann, wrote later, "we cannot bring ourselves to take this step, so contradictory to all the experience of nuclear physics." But Hahn's former coworker, Physicist Lise Meitner, had no such hesitation. Hearing of the experiment in exile in Sweden, she not only proclaimed that Hahn and Strassmann had achieved nuclear fission, but also calculated that each atom of uranium had released 20 million times as much energy as a comparable amount...
...Fritz Lang's Fury, twenty-two members of a lynch mob on trial for their lives, presumably cleared by the perjured testimony of their neighbors, are proven guilty by the camera. A newsreel filmed during the height of the mob violence containing the indelible record of their faces is presented in court. The scene is cathartic, as Lang presents the camera per se as an instrument of fate, the omniscient agent of grim truths. It is even more cathartic in its simplicity, for the concept of film-as-evidence recalls the very motives for the genesis of the medium, that...
...Died. Fritz Bauer, 64, Jewish lawyer who survived the horrors of Hitler's concentration camps to become West Germany's most renowned Nazi hunter; of a heart attack; in Frankfurt. Called the "conscience of his country," Bauer was named chief prosecutor of the state of Hesse in 1956, ultimately brought hundreds of fugitives to justice, including the notorious Auschwitz adjutant Karl Höcker. Died. Donald A. Hall, 69, engineering genius who designed Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis; of a heart attack; in San Diego. "CAN YOU CONSTRUCT PLANE CAPABLE FLYING NONSTOP BETWEEN NEW YORK...
...members of the Harvard boat are bow, Dave Higgins; 2, Cleve Livingston; 3, Steve Brooks; 4, Fritz Hobbs; 5, Scott Steketee; 6, Andy Larkin; 7, Curt Canning; stroke, Art Evans; cox, Paul Hoffman...
...heavyweight varsity boatings: Paul Hoffman, cox, Art Evans, stroke; Curt Canning, captain and 7; Andy Larkin, 6; Fritz Hobbs, 5; Scott Steketee, 4; Steve Brooks, 3; Cleve Livingston, 2; and Dave Higgins...