Word: reese
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A year later, young Lewis was in the hands of the ugliest man alive. "Oldie," as the boys dubbed him, was the half-insane master of a decrepit boarding school, "a big, bearded man with full lips like an Assyrian king on a monument, immensely strong, physically dirty." Smacking his...
TO report this week's hair-raising ' cover story on missiles, Los Angeles Correspondent Edwin Rees projected himself along a 15,000-mile course. It zigzagged up and down the U.S. from San Diego to Washington, from New Mexican firing ranges to Seattle plane plants, from SAC air...
At Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala., Rees ran into an enemy turned friend. He was a wartime scientist at Peenemünde, where Germans developed their V-25. When Rees asked the scientist if he was at Peenemünde on Aug. 28, 1944, he thought a moment, then cried in...
A New Yorker by birth and Californian by choice, Ed Rees came to TIME as an office boy at the end of 1941. He was soon off with the Eighth Air Force, dropping bombs on Peenemünde and other targets. He shrugs off his 32 missions over Germany and...
WHILE Correspondent Rees was "'gathering material for the cover story, Science Editor Jonathan Norton Leonard touched base with old friends and acquaintances among the Germans at Redstone and the U.S. technologists who are today's missilemen. To them, he is a writer who speaks their strange tongue and...