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British Atoms. The Nobel Prize for physics went to Britain's Professor Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett, 50. Blackett, like Tiselius, is less a theoretician than a master of physical technique. In 1924, he took the first photograph of the disintegration of an atomic nucleus. In 1929, he developed an electronic tripping device which made cosmic rays take their own pictures...
That was no sudden, theoretician's conclusion. Big Jim had come up through the brawling competition of the wildcat oilfields; his roots were deep in Pennsylvania history. One of his ancestors was a member of William Penn's Council. His grandfather was one of the first to strike oil in western Pennsylvania...
...from Lake Success, another Soviet-trained theoretician-Bulgaria's heavy-lidded Communist Boss Georgi Dimitrov -explained how this doctrine worked in applied Bulgarian politics. Said Dimitrov (in a busy week in which his government ousted 23 more opposition deputies): "We will have peace and tranquillity for creative labor. Whoever stands in our way . . . will go behind bars...
...homeward, where chubby Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, Stalin's deputy in the party, is now the chief executor of the Politburo's intensified domestic policy. The new Soviet line was a perfect example of Lenin's way of thinking about foreign policy, as explained by the Soviet theoretician, M. Leonov...
...children of a Viennese scholar-philosopher. Gerhart was one of the founders of Austria's Communist Party. In Germany, in the early '20s, he and sister Ruth were at the top of opposing Red factions-she the flamboyant leader of the violent revolutionaries, he the quiet theoretician of the "reconcilers...