Word: rutherford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks in part to Rutherford (credited with having been first to split the atom), the world has had cause to take a long, hard, wary look at the scientist. This has impelled the publishers to reissue their Snow of yesteryear, and it can be read today not only as a good, plain narrative (Snow's later Strangers and Brothers series testifies to his skill), but as an insider's account of just how it feels to be an inmate of science's glass menagerie...
...didn't like the erotic bits," Lord Rutherford told the young novelist one day in 1934. But otherwise, Britain's most famous scientist conceded, he liked The Search-a first novel by a young spectroscopist named Charles Percy Snow. The book was one of the first to take scientists at their own high estimate of themselves, it presented science itself as a religion, and it even mentioned Rutherford himself as a high pontifical character of unapproachable magnificence...
...wasn't organized athletics-most of my exercise came from hard work, and I had plenty of that." He got much of it in the form of odd jobs, for as much as 25? an hour (a princely sum for a boy during the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes), plus helping his father to mow and cradle hay in the summer...
...Litchfield moved up to the presidency in 1926, Eddie Thomas also rose, became general superintendent of Goodyear in California and worked for Goodyear in England before becoming president at 41, the youngest ever chosen by a major rubber company. Together they groomed Russ DeYoung, son of a Rutherford, N.J. carpenter, for the presidency. Both Thomas and DeYoung brush off talk of any basic changes in Goodyear's policies. As devoted admirers of Litchfield, they say that the policies "P.W." used to make Goodyear great are good enough for them...
...fine portrayal in The Potting Shed at this theatre last summer) makes the most of the clergyman shocked to find that the words of "the Great Agnostic" can issue out of the mouths of babes. Adele Thane (also here in two plays last summer) brings the vigor of Margaret Rutherford to the part of the indolent maid...