Word: jordans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sensational yarn, complete with arrogant Russians, secret papers, and hints of dark doings in high places. The man who told it was a bony-faced Manhattan businessman named George Racey Jordan, 51, wartime major in the U.S. Army Air Forces. Jordan and his story were triumphantly presented to a nationwide radio audience last week by Radiorator Fulton Lewis...
...story went like this: in 1943 and 1944, Racey Jordan was stationed at Great Falls, Mont, as a Lend-Lease expediter and liaison officer with the Russian staff headed by a Colonel Anatoly Koti-kov. Through Great Falls moved thousands of U.S. war planes to be ferried on to Russia by way of Alaska. Jordan became suspicious of the black suitcases arriving by special plane and accompanied by armed Russian guards. One day he decided to take action, entered a plane, brushed aside two Russian couriers who "were screaming about diplomatic immunity," and broke open the cases...
...Flying Neutrons." He found, said Jordan, "a lot of blueprints and maps and engineering drawings and scientific data" labeled "Oak Ridge, Manhattan Engineering District." Major Jordan had never heard of the Manhattan Project, but he noted the words down. He inspected a blueprint and noted that it read: "Walls five feet thick of lead and water to control flying neutrons." He also found, he said, a note on White House stationery, "which impressed me because it had the name of Harry Hopkins printed in the upper left-hand corner. I jotted down part of the message. It said...
...Butch Jordan's Harvard wrestling team, eight men (strong), sets out on a sevenmatch schedule by entertaining MIT this afternoon in the Blockhouse. The respective freshman teams will get things going...
There are two sophomores in Jordan's lineup today-Chip Carter and Al Sawyer-probably the most capable of last year's freshmen. Carter is filling in for Roger Wach, bothered by a bad knee, at 136. Sawyer captained the freshmen last winter and will face MIT captain Wilbur Haggerty at 155 today...