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Considered a pioneer in the modern theory of magnetism. Van Vleck served as dean of the Physics Department from 1945 to 1949 and was the first dean of the division of Applied Sciences, a post he held until 1957. Van Vleck received a Noble Prize for physics...
...rounding up Chinese journalists at their homes by jeep for a Douglas Mac Arthur press conference which was suddenly rescheduled. But it's also much more. Fairbank infuses his personal tales with the kind of clairvoyance which has distinguished him as a compassionate commentator as well as pioneer historian. With his first-hand familiarity with the U.S. effort to aid Chiang Kai-shek's regime, he describes his concern for increasingly confused decision-making in Washington...
...leaving only after the third out of the fourteenth inning. In between innings, they joked with each other, reeling off the entire line-up (including the plate umpired of a 1960 double a game, reminiscing about a certain' prospect with a great forkball who never made it past the Pioneer League But once play began, their attention returned to the present...
...continuing his career, as a back injury discouraged any learn from drafting him. Determined to make it, he gave up a high paying job at Union Carbide and went to a ton of trial campus," a friend says, before he finally got picked up last year by the Pioneer League Idaho Falls Angel affiliate. The first baseman batted. 333 and knocked in 48 runs in his first season and is now with the Midwest League Danville Suns. Bingham started in the opener against the Cointon Giants, going hitless in four at-bats and committing one error...
...finally .. . but it would not be proper to reveal Pryor's punch line to the grim joke life played on him; and there are words best left to R-rated movies. Pryor uses them all, relentlessly and with relish. For him-as for Lenny Bruce, the pioneer of Savonarola satire, and Pryor's only true antecedent-profanity serves to give both a salty rhythm to his sentences and a Joy Buzzer shock to his more refeened listeners. It remains for his fearless comic acuity to tell him precisely how much gutter imagery his audience can take...