Word: luft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, two months after the suspects had been found, the FBI arrested von der Luft and Wallis. They were charged with stealing Government property...
...Pittsburgh, bespectacled von der Luft explained: "I just picked them up as souvenirs...
Both men were carefully checked before the Army assigned them to the Los Alamos atom-bomb plant in 1944. Heavy-set Alexander von der Luft, 23, had been born in Wilmington. His father was an official of the American Cyanamid and Chemical Corp. at Bridgeville, Pa. Von der Luft had interrupted his study of chemical engineering at Princeton University to enlist. He was quiet and studious. Earnest Wallis had been born in Indianapolis in 1913. He had left school to go into commercial photography in Cleveland. His father was a railroad auditor of modest means...
...traced von der Luft to Princeton, where he had returned to finish his engineering studies. In his room, they found over 200 pages of handwritten notes and documents on atomic processes, other data in the family safe in his home in Mount Lebanon, Pa. Wallis was run down in Chicago late in May. Carelessly thrown in a drawer in his studio were over 200 photographs and negatives pertaining to atomic bomb tests and machinery...
...arranged with a printer to publish a book of his watercolors. By last week all 5,000 books had reached the subscribers, and there were already 1,000 requests for more. Colonel Greening's careful watercolors were not first-rate art, but for the graduating class of Stalag Luft I they made a historic yearbook. And to men who had survived air combat, his paintings rang true...