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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study of the physics of the atmosphere has declined in the past few years, Goody said last Monday. He attributed his success in raising funds for his research project to a desire on the part of many scientists to see this currently-neglected field revived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goody Gets $172,000 For Physics Project | 11/20/1959 | See Source »

...Ciardi had misgivings about the ability of commercial old lowbrow America to recognize true Greatness overnight. "J.B., it must be added, is strong stuff," he warned. "Too strong, one knows, for Broadway success this season or next." But eventually all would be well, he concluded: "And yet Broadway will come to it in time, because it must, because great imagination and great talent cannot be denied forever. Meanwhile, Yale is preparing it for production, and certainly the summer theatres and the college groups throughout the country will have found a new star forever. For J.B. adds a dimension...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: MacLeish's 'J. B.': A Review of Reviews | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

...even success will only solve this problem for biology. The rest of Natural Science, which demands a background in mathematics and an extremely special set of talents, remains General Education's greatest headache...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Nat Sci Dilemma | 11/19/1959 | See Source »

...study of atmospheric physics has been largely supplanted by the investigation of weather-forecasting, Goody declared yesterday. A consequent desire on the part of many scientists to revive the currently-neglected field, he said, is primarily responsible for his success in obtaining financial support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Goody Receives $120,000 in Grants For Atmospheric Physics Research | 11/17/1959 | See Source »

Alchemistic Search. The initial secret of the Krupp success was failure. The founder of modern Kruppdom, Friedrich, was a turn-of-the-19th-century dreamer, prophetically dedicated to an industrialized Germany. He spent his life in a quasi-alchemistic search for "the secret of casting steel," processed more irony than iron in his foundry, the Forge of Good Hope, and died at 39 of dropsy and despair. His son Alfred was later to find and filch the sought-for secret from British forgemasters while posing as a frivolous visiting baron, Herr Schropp. After he set the Essen smokestacks belching, Alfred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Money & Gunpowder | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

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