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...brilliance of George Washington Hill, his associates, all hand-picked by himself, seemed pale. But the men who know tobacco best knew that the company had a handful of capable top men from which to pick a new president. Last week gossip narrowed down to vice presidents Paul M. Hahn, 51, and George Washington Hill...
...German Nobel Prizewinners Otto Hahn (TIME, Jan. 21) and Werner Heisenberg said that Germany knew the secret of harnessing atomic energy in 1941. Said Heisenberg: "We were unable to apply it because of shortages of manpower and material. ... In June, 1942, we made a report on our progress to Speer [Albert Speer, Nazi munitions boss now on trial at Nürnberg]. At the same time American atom scientists made a similar report in the U.S. Then followed the great difference -America was able to start building the necessary factories. . . . Germany could not even begin work...
Major Charles Boxer, who fathered Humorist Emily Hahn's daughter in Hong Kong and made it legal in Connecticut (TIME, Dec. 10), looked newsworthy in Tokyo to a Stars and Stripes reporter. But the Major, in town with the Far Eastern Investigating Commission, knew the essence of his own fame, gave the interviewer an acute lesson in journalism. Said he: "My news value ceased the day I married...
World mastery had been in Dr. Hahn's grasp, but it had slipped away. The measure of his failure was last week's Allied decision to let him return to Germany...
Last week, British sources announced that Dr. Hahn and some ten other German scientists had been living on a farm 40 miles outside of London. Their answers to questioning had shown that, despite Hitler's frantic calls for a superweapon, German science had lagged three years behind the Allies in developing atomic discoveries...