Word: joliot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When famed Communist-line Physicist Irène Joliot-Curie arrived from France a fortnight ago, her overnight detention on Ellis Island stirred many a U.S. citizen to protest (TIME, March 29). News of her arrival also stirred the memory of French Expert Adele Starbird, dean of women at St. Louis' Washington University. In her St. Louis Star-Times column last week, Dean Starbird recalled a 1946 interview with Mme. Joliot-Curie in Paris. Some Curie-isms...
Dean Starbird reported that, by the time the interview ended, Mme. Joliot-Curie had become "molten lava." Last week Visitor Joliot-Curie was still erupting. In Seattle, she gave her explanation-the usual Communist line-of U.S.-Soviet tension. The entire trouble, she announced, lay with U.S. citizens, who "look with much more favor on fascism than on Communism." Her reasoning: "Americans think fascism has more respect for money...
...Joliot-Curie, daughter of famed Physicist Marie Curie, is a distinguished nuclear physicist in her own right, a Nobel prizewinner and the wife of a Communist. Like her husband, Frederic, she is also a member of France's Atomic Research Commission. Late one afternoon last week, Mme. Curie stepped off an Air France plane at La Guardia Field. Waiting to meet her was Dr. Edward Barsky, chairman of the Communist-front Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, under whose auspices Mme. Curie was to lecture...
...Curie's reception provoked an angry international uproar. Alexandre Parodi, France's delegate to the United Nations, pronounced the incident "regrettable." In Washington, the State Department got urgent calls from the French Embassy. Next day Attorney General Tom C. Clark ordered Mme. Joliot-Curie released-but not before she had spent a night under detention at Ellis Island. Mme. Curie, who says she is not a Communist but agrees with Communists on many things, said she was not surprised at her treatment...
...Coris were not the first husband-&-wife team so honored (former prizewinners: Radium Discoverers Pierre and Marie Curie, Chemists Frederic Joliot and Irene Curie-Joliot). Carl, 50, and Gerty Cori, 51, both born in what used to be Austria-Hungary, met as medical students in the same class at the University of Prague, soon afterward were married and teamed up in a lifetime study of the mysterious chemistry of the human body. Their work may some day lead to a cure for diabetes (TIME, May 12). At Washington...