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...JOHN P. MURPHY...
...Paris' famed Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques, passed with highest marks the examinations to become an inspecteur des finances in the French civil service. By 1940, at 33, he had become the Finance Ministry's director of foreign exchange, but he disliked serving in Marshal Pétain's Vichy government...
Born. To Huntingdon Hartford, 57, A. & P. heir, and Diane Hartford, 26, his third wife, a willowy ex-model he married in 1962: a girl, their first child; in Manhattan...
...melting-pot atmosphere of The Bronx. Later he was awarded the Silver Star and Croix de guerre for his heroism in the trenches of France as a U.S. Army chaplain during World War I. Even before he came to Holy Cross in 1932, succeeding the late Father Francis P. Duffy (who won fame with the "Fighting 69th" Regiment back when that was an honorable number), McCaffrey honed his appreciation of law enforcement as chaplain to New York's Roman Catholic policemen...
...through the transparent walls of the ruby rod and are lost. But many hit the mirrors at either end of the rod and are reflected back to the opposite mirror. As they bounce back and forth along the rod, they stimulate other chromium atoms into emitting photons (see diagram, p. 49). When the chromium atoms that are in an excited state become more plentiful than those that are not, a torrent of photons bursts through the partially transparent mirror at one end of the rod in a brief but intense pulse of red light, vastly more powerful than the flash...