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ROBERT C. BYERLY Pasadena, Calif...
...after hours to help himself to liquor and sandwiches, was not discovered until 30 days later when a customer noticed whiskey leaking through the ceiling. Said Fleming: "I never had it so good." ¶Burbank, Calif, called off plans for a $2,500 float to represent the city at Pasadena's Tournament of Roses, decided to spend the money toward a new sewer. ¶After a year of editorializing, letter-writing and resolution-passing, local historians of Babylon, N.Y. got the Board on Geographic Names to reverse itself, make the name of their creek Sumpwams, instead of Sumpwams. Expressing...
...whom you could be an apprentice." By 1939, "Oppie" (as his apprentices called him) had 25 full-time graduate students working under him. In the spring, when he headed south from Berkeley for the CalTech term, many of his students went with him. Driving down to Pasadena, they stopped for "roadside seminars...
Comes the Revolution. It was at a Pasadena party in 1939 that Robert Oppenheimer, then 35, met Katherine Puening Harrison. A small, German-born brunette, Mrs. Harrison was the wife of a radiologist, and herself a graduate student in plant physiology at U.C.L.A. A year later, after the Harrisons were divorced, Kitty and Robert were married. Of the subsequent revolution in his habits, Oppenheimer says: "A certain stuffiness overcame...
...Paul G. Hoffman, wife of the ECAdministrator, was feeling shaky after her car was smashed up in a three-car collision near Monroe, La. Next day a friend drove her on to Dallas, where she planned to take a plane or a train to Pasadena...