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...Rozella: "We've got a chance to whip some Communists, and all we have to do is act like Christians." She urged Luther to "act" by kicking in for winter clothes. In some bewilderment he agreed. Then Rozella called up other merchants-J. C. McDonnell Co., J. C. Penney, Morris & Sons-and told them what Luther was doing. Next day the four merchants outfitted each of the seven students with a new suit, overcoat and gloves...
After the October news that Britain had exploded her first atom bomb in the barren wastes of the Monte Bello Islands north of Australia, a proud Prime Minister declared that William George Penney, the physicist who directed the project, would be knighted as a reward. Last week, at Buckingham Palace, without waiting to include him in the usual honors list, Queen Elizabeth II made Penney a Knight Commander of the British Empire...
...weapon behaved exactly as expected and forecast in many precise details by Dr. W. G. Penney, whose services were of the highest order...
...part in constructing the bomb and handling the test explosion, Physicist Penney (TIME, Oct. 13) will be knighted. He first learned this on a news broadcast; Churchill had tried to reach him beforehand but the telephone operator refused to give out Dr. Penney's unlisted home telephone number even when told that the Prime Minister was calling...
Last week his country's credit came to Dr. Penney. Early one morning, as he watched over a special TV screen in the bowels of a naval vessel, he saw a bright flash, like a setting sun, light up the skies, followed by a dense, turbulent cloud that hugged the ground and slowly zigzagged upward in a Z shape curiously unlike the usual mushroom. Smaller than the usual U.S. blast, it was reportedly designed to verify a new technique aimed at reducing the amount of fissionable material needed to produce an explosion...