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When wind of Fu's mission reached Canton, the Nationalist high command sent two missions flying northward with silver dollars. They arrived too late, turned back in dejection. Like General Fu, Governor Tung joined the Red army and, as an earnest of his loyalty, turned Suiyuan over to Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung...
...school opened, no one was more excited than handsome Dr. L. Dale Coffman, 44, its first dean. Said he: "[It is] the greatest founding since the University of Chicago Law School in this century." A onetime professor at the University of Nebraska, later a corporation lawyer with General Electric Co., and for the last three years dean of Vanderbilt University's law school, Coffman had good reason to be happy at his big premiere. As its chief academic attraction he had persuaded Roscoe Pound, retired dean of the Harvard Law School and revered in the field of jurisprudence...
Baby & Buggy. While "frip" has replaced "lousy" in the South, "hairy" seems to be the coming word for it on the West Coast. In Denver, socially boresome classmates formerly referred to as "creeps" are now called "meals"; a "sizzle" is a general term describing anyone from a creep to a showoff. In Chicago, last year's "D.D.T." (drop dead twice) is still fashionable; the dangling "but," sounded with rising inflection on the end of any declaration or question, is new there. Example: "Where you goin', but?" In Detroit, high school girls now talk of the "goofs...
Good Company.The government asked for a court order to make the Lorain Journal stop all this. (Penalty for disobeying: fines and jail sentences.) Attorney General J. Howard McGrath emphasized that the suit did not abridge freedom of the press. Said he: "As the Supreme Court pointed out in the Associated Press case, freedom to keep others from publishing news is not guaranteed by the Constitution" (TIME, July...
There was no "atomic secret." The basic fact that uranium atoms can be made to split in two, and release a massive jolt of energy, had been common scientific knowledge since 1939. The famed Smyth Report (A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes), which told how to go about making an atomic bomb was published by the U.S. War Department in August 1945. But even without the Smyth Report, U.S. scientists warned it was only a matter of time until some foreign nation, i.e., the U.S.S.R., would build a bomb...