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Died. Alice Higinbotham Patterson, 87, first wife of New York Daily News Founder Joseph Medill Patterson and mother of the late Alicia Patterson Guggenheim (editor and publisher of Long Island's Newsday until her death in 1963), a Chicago patrician who did her best to lead her husband's life, hunting big game, flying with the Wright Brothers, finally divorced Captain Joe in 1938 and returned to a secluded life of gardening and charities; of congestive heart failure; in Chicago...
Temporary Chairman of the committee is Dr. W.A. Higinbotham, head of Brook have National Laboratory and vice chairman of the Federation of American Scientists. Members include Princeton professor Albert Eastein and Stanley Livingston of M.I.T...
Unanimous disapproval of Armed forces monopoly of the atom emerged from the two-day session as a situation detrimental to scientific initiative. William A. Higinbotham, executive secretary of the Federation of American Scientists, saw the absence of a presidential appointment to the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission as a distinct trend is the militaristic direction...
...When Patterson and Wife No. 1, Alice Higinbotham, were divorced in 1938, the story was played in detail on Page 2. His later marriage to Mary King was briefly noted on Page...
...reasons for this mighty experiment confused some people. Scientist W. A. Higinbotham, chairman of the Federation of Atomic Scientists, said he did not "see much object" in the test. But "Spike" Blandy thought his mission was crystal clear: to test a new weapon and to lay the foundation for defense" against it. He explained...