Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kulp, a member of the American Scientific Affiliation and scientist on the Manhattan Project at Princeton during the war is now establishing a geo-chemistry laboratory at Columbia for applying the methods of physical chemistry to geology...
Died. Charles Hanson Towne, 72, litterateur, minor poet (Manhattan) and editor (the old Smart Set, McClure's, Harper's Bazaar); after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Boats. Manhattan's Bilnor Corp. put on the market a new collapsible Vinylite boat, small enough, when not inflated, to be carried in an overnight bag. Blown up, the boat will carry up to an adult and five children (see cut), can be paddled like a canoe. Prices: $10 (56 in. long...
...surgeon readers of Surgery got a sound wigging in the current issue from one of their own and from a pair of practitioners in other fields. Dr. Allen Oldfather Whipple, clinical director of Manhattan's Memorial Hospital, told them how not to act in the operating room-with specifications. Then they got another lecture from Manhattan Internist Mack Lipkin and Psychiatrist Edward Joseph, who complained that too many surgeons do not know how to handle surgery patients, anyhow...
Died. Sol Bloom, 78, longtime chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (except for the Republican 80th Congress), Democratic Representative from New York's 20th (Manhattan) District since 1923; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. Son of Polish immigrants, onetime song-plugger and showman (he was earning $25,000 a year when he was 18, introduced the hootchy-kootchy at the Chicago World's Fair), admirer of George Washington (he organized the 1932 bicentennial), he entered Tammany politics after successfully retiring from the real-estate business at the age of 50. Internationalist and ardent New Dealer, pince...