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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Last June he acquired family responsibilities with a marriage to Miss Janice Howe from his home in West Bridgewater, Pa. She was a co-ed at Beaver High School there when he was playing an all-state fullback for the Beaver eleven...
Semantical interest was not the reason, but the $50,000 worth of prizes awarded weekly for six consecutive weeks by the peanut company in Wilkes Barre, Pa. Holt got a cigarette lighter for his eyestrain, but Harper came up a week ago with the number one award, a Hudson sedan...
...George Sylvester Viereck, 63, war-to-war propagandist for Germany. A stout defender of Kaiser Wilhelm in War I and of Adolf Hitler in War II, poetasting Journalist Viereck in 1943 began a one-to-five-year sentence (as a German agent) in the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. Last week, having been released 18 months short of the maximum for good behavior, he was in good shape, said his lawyer, and had written a novel...