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Niels Bohr, one of the world's greatest theoretical physicists, whom Oppenheimer affectionately refers to as "my father," was interviewed in his native Denmark by TIME "stringer," Kai Schou. A Nobel prize winner and one of the leaders in the fellowship of physics whom Oppenheimer first met at Cambridge University, Bohr had escaped from Nazi-occupied Denmark to collaborate with Oppenheimer and the other scientists in the research and development of the atomic bomb...
...Wyeth portrait of Christina took second prize at last month's Carnegie Exhibition (TIME, Oct. 25). "It looks sort of photographic," Wyeth admits. "I guess they all do, but the fact is I never paint from nature. I make careful sketches and then change everything around. For instance the field in Christina's World is not really that large, but I felt it that way. Ever since I was a small kid I felt it was big. For a month and a half I built the ground up, to make it come toward you, that surge of earth...
Fred Allen and James W. Russell 1GB aren't talking any more. Allen's agents have given Russell the brushoff and have stated that Russell "doesn't qualify for a new Ford"--the car that he wanted as reimbursement for a radio prize he might have won over WHBS...
This insurance was devised by Allen at the beginning of the fall. It was intended to reimburse any listener for a radio prize missed while tuned to Allen and not the give-away...
Died. Alexander Vasilievich Vishnevsky, 74, leading Soviet surgeon, holder of the Stalin Prize (for brilliant work in the treatment of wounds and shock) and the Order of Lenin; in Moscow...