Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While waiting, Russell disinterestedly outlined his career. He grew up in East Cleveland's Hungarian Buckeye Road district, left school at sixteen, and played saxophone in his own jazz band. ("I called myself Jack Russell because the announcers couldn't pronounce my name.") "Doing odd jobs for East Cleveland politicians" followed and towards the end of the Depression, Russell was clearing $25,000 a year publishing four weekly throw-always at his Buckeye Press. "We had tremendous advertising," he said, "that explains the profit...
...today, a "square" (pronounced, in his thick accent, "skvare"). Favorite amusements were chess, hiking, poetry and music. Among the subjects of his poems was a chum's brainy, grey-eyed younger sister, Mici (pronounced Mitzi), who shared young Teller's enthusiasm for mathematics and that special Hungarian passion, pingpong. Eventually they were married...
Like all young Hungarian scientists in those days. Teller took his Ph.D. in Germany (University of Leipzig). When Hitler took power in 1933, Teller was at Gottingen, pursuing research in the molecular structure of matter. With the anti-Semitism that darkened his childhood raging about him again, he eagerly grabbed at a British rescue mission's offer of a lecturer's post at London University. Two years later he moved on to the U.S. to take up a physics professor's duties at the District of Columbia's George Washington University...
Snarled Threads. Seven months before the outbreak of World War 11, scientists in the U.S. learned with alarm that physicists in Germany had succeeded in bringing about atomic fission. Shortly afterward, the U.S. incurred the first major installment of its massive debt to Hungarian-born scientists. Physicist Leo Szilard, leaping in thought from laboratory fission to atomic bomb, set out to urge the U.S. Government to get an atomic-research project going. Reasoning that a letter to President Roosevelt would have maximum impact if signed by Einstein, Szilard recruited his fellow Hungarian Edward Teller to chauffeur him out to Peconic...
...compounded of incessant oratory, the rumble of tanks and the clinking of glasses, the Communist world last week celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. In Prague a 105-ft. statue of Stalin was bathed in floodlights. In Budapest a monument to 24 Soviet soldiers killed in the Hungarian "counterrevolution" was unveiled. In Ulan Bator the elite of Outer Mongolia were treated to an address by Soviet ex-Foreign Minister Vyacheslav...