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...knew of atomic energy. He knew a great deal. He was in & out of the secret lab at the University of Chicago, where- under the stadium-the first controlled chain reaction was achieved, had been a senior member of the Anglo-Canadian research team at Montreal's McGill University. His sentence: ten years in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES: Worse Than Murder | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

...Crimson varsity took a perfect 8-0 record into the Trinity match, with victories over McGill, Dartmouth, M.I.T., Williams, Wesleyan, Army, Penn, and Princeton to its credit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Will Oppose Lord Jeffs | 2/24/1951 | See Source »

...Atlanta Constitution and Executive Editor Ralph McGill buckled down to work 13 years ago to drive the Ku Klux Klan out of Georgia. The Constitution repeatedly headlined hooded assault and fiery cross burnings, prodded lethargic cops into jailing several of the ringleaders, kept up a constant drumfire of ridicule. When Indiana Veterinarian James A. Colescott was chosen Imperial Wizard of the Klan, Editor McGill wrote: "For the first time the Klan has chosen a proper man, a veterinarian skilled in dealing with dumb animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Constitution Wins | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...Klan fought back. Hooded Klans men paraded around the Constitution building, sent the Constitution and McGill letters filled with threats and abuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Constitution Wins | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...celebrating its victory, the Constitution had some sharp things to say about he way Northern newspapers had covered the fight. When the first bill was debated, said McGill, the story was given front-page play in the North. Last week, after thumbing through 30 Northern newspapers, McGill angrily wrote: "Let anything suggestive of Ku Klux Klan violence happen in Georgia or the South nd the Northern and Eastern papers are certain to give it front-page play and bitter editorial condemnation. But we have searched in vain for comment on ... passage of the antimask bill, which . . . signals the death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Constitution Wins | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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