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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tons of Neutrons. This week, on a similar broadcast, Brown repeated his shocker. Physicist Leo Szilard of Chicago added that 50 tons of neutrons released by hydrogen fusion could ring the earth with a radioactive dust layer capable of killing the earth's entire population. Physicists Frederick Seitz of the University of Illinois and Hans Bethe of Cornell, appearing on the same program, were more moderate, but they went along generally with their emphatic colleagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hydrogen Hysteria | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...League the Dudley team did better, upsetting the first place Dunster five, 33 to 27. The Commuters are in last place. Leo Walko scored 15 points for the winners, who stayed in front all by virtue of an effective fast break...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland 'A' League Lead Increases As Dunster Defeats Dudley, 40-37 | 3/3/1950 | See Source »

...carefully translated by Arthur Godfrey into personal security. After taxes and expenses, whatever is left of his astronomical earnings is plowed into annuities and insurance against the uncertain future. With Godfrey signed to a fat, twelve-year CBS contract, Godfrey's lawyer, financial adviser and good friend, C. Leo DeOrsey, is able to say: "Arthur will never have to worry again in his life, especially since his requirements are no more than the ordinary cop's in New York-and I don't mean a sergeant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Oceans of Empathy | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...Brown's Providence papers last September had a frontpage story to spill. Pasquale Borino wanted to fill in the Journal and Evening Bulletin on a mob which he said was running the lottery, sweepstakes, race-track and baseball-pool rackets in Rhode Island. But when Bulletin City Editor Leo Son-deregger tried to track down Borino's leads, he found they cut across state lines and involved shadowy national figures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Crime Syndicate | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

Died. Mary Curley Donnelly, 41, and Leo Curley, 34, only daughter and eldest son of Massachusetts' ex-Governor James Michael Curley, longtime mayor (off & on) of Boston, the sixth and seventh of his nine children to die; she of a cerebral hemorrhage; he, the same day, of a heart attack, while making arrangements for his sister's funeral; in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 20, 1950 | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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