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Retreat into Mystery. Two weeks after Fermi reached New York, he heard about the famous telegram telling Niels Bohr that uranium fission had been discovered in Germany. Fermi knew what it meant: that enormous energy might be extracted from the uranium atom. Soon he was part of the vast U.S. attempt to release that energy in an atomic bomb...
...role in The Egyptian. A Fox executive talked him out of his objections, or thought he had. Came the day when the first scene was to be shot. As Fox later protested: sets were built, costumes on, extras standing by, cameras ready to roll. No Brando. Then came a telegram from his psychoanalyst in New York: Marlon was "a very sick and mentally confused boy," and in absolutely no condition to work. Fox threw Edmond Purdom into the Brando part, sued Marlon for $2,000 damages. Marlon settled the suit by agreeing to make Désirée, later...
Died. James Howell Street, 50, prolific manufacturer of historical novels (Tap Roots, Goodbye, My Lady), who began at 20 as a Baptist minister, became a newspaperman (A. P., New York World-Telegram) until free-lance success in the late '30s allowed him to devote all his time to his facile tales of slave trading,dueling and boudoir derring-do; of a heart ailment; at Chapel Hill...
...there is nothing to be gained by breaking off diplomatic relations with Russia, as Knowland had demanded (TIME. Sept. 13) after Soviet jets shot down the Navy patrol plane off Siberia. Presidential aides said that Ike was miffed because Knowland had thoughtlessly-or deliberately-released the text of the telegram before it even reached...
...MIRACLE' SAVES CITY, trumpeted the New York World-Telegram & Sun. New York battened down and buttoned up, prepared for the worst. Commuters hurried home to secure the family car and bring in the garbage pails. Radio and TV turned their full attention to the big wind. ("Hurricane Edna," announced one television commercial perfunctorily, "is being presented to you as a public service by Con Edison...