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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lilienthal was trying to explain to the Joint Atomic Energy Committee why AEC had granted a $1,600 fellowship to Hans Freistadt, a University of North Carolina student and an avowed Communist (TIME, May 23). He had an uneasy time of it. And when the Joint Committee was through with him, a Senate subcommittee considering the AEC appropriation seized hapless Chairman Lilienthal and put him on a grill...
...list of 500 AEC scholarship-holders, Michigan's Homer Ferguson demanded to be told how many Communists there were among them. "Perhaps as many as three," Lilienthal admitted. One of these, explained Dr. Shields Warren, AEC's director of biology and medicine, was "an outstanding student" named Isador Edelman. Edelman, 29, had applied for a fellowship at the University of California's Berkeley laboratory (where he would have been close to secret work), had been turned down because an FBI check disclosed "derogatory information." But because he "showed extraordinary promise," AEC granted him a $3,750 fellowship...
...Head has not changed his old ways. Though 69, he is still head coach of the varsity football, basketball and baseball teams, still bats out grounders before a big game. (Another interest: driving one of his three trotters in one of his eleven buggies.) He presides at his daily student assemblies; is always full of campus news and cracker-barrel advice ("The hills are changing color again. Be sure to look"). He still holds Sunday vespers, beaming when the boys sing "real loud." In campus affection he has only one rival: his wife Helen, who teaches chemistry and algebra...
...Queens". Later, after public reminders that the appointment was none of his business ("An unseemly bumble," cried the New York Herald Tribune), he backed down. But Hovde withdrew his name from the pot. So, a short time later, rdid another promising candidate, Walter Consuelo Langsam, president of 1,200-student Wagner Memorial Lutheran College on Staten Island. On reflection, he decided to stay where he was. The board, which didn't care much for Miss Kiely, started its search all over again...
...camera is one of a long line of bright ideas which have won Dr. Land's company a fine scientific reputation, but little in the way of profits except in the war years, when it made optical equipment. Land first got interested in optics as a science student at Harvard; he formed Polaroid in 1937 to market his first notable discovery, Polaroid plastic. (It filtered light rays in such a way that the glare was removed...