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Feeling against foreigners was already strong in Germany in 1926, and Kistiakowsky, in the country on a student's visa, left for the US and a Rockefeller grant. He came to Harvard in 1930 and quickly moved up the academic ladder to a name chair and a stint as department chairman...
...first death came the first day. A young soldier, doing his stint in the water to "lessen the rigors of overcrowding," was stung by a sea creature and died in agony. That night, the first man went insane. The next day, 20 men built a raft of flotsam to tow behind the boat. All 20 climbed aboard. The raft sank slowly until they were half under water. In three days' time, all were dead...
After the President's usual two-hour morning stint at the office, during which reporters stand by to interview callers and get announcements of the morning work, they are free to tag along to the golf course. "But there are times when everything is quiet and the President is safely at home and the reporter can argue himself into taking a full afternoon off." In the evening, White House Press Secretary Jim Hagerty phones the press room at the Brown Palace to report on any afternoon event that is newsworthy...
Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott Jr., 52, is a sixth-term Congressman whose 1948-49 stint as Republican National Committee chairman was marked by more noise than victory. Once a Tom Dewey partisan and more recently a member of Eisenhower's personal campaign staff, Scott last week complained that some Republicans in Congress are acting like "quarreling old women," and a few are "old fuds," * blocking the Eisenhower program and thus endangering G.O.P. election prospects. Writing in the American Magazine, Scott named to his "fudocracy": in the Senate, Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy, 43, Nevada's George...
After a 28-year stint, Detective Fabian left the Yard in 1949 with some 40 commendations, including the King's Medal for defusing an Irish Republican Army bomb in Piccadilly. Nowadays, he keeps busier than ever as a crime feature writer for the Kemsley newspapers. Looking back over his career, Fabian concludes that most crooks are not too bright. But one, he admits, outwitted him. This was the fellow who squeezed into an eight-inch-wide opening between the back of the kennels and the outside wall at London's White City dog track; he stayed there nearly...