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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Happened in 1948 (Sat. 7:30 p.m., ABC). The year's top news stories...
What Will the Traffic Bear? In Philadelphia and Cleveland, club owners vied for the privilege of trying to sign such top 1948 college stars as Nevada's champion passer, Stan Heath, Southern Methodist's snake-hipped quarterback, Doak Walker (who still has another year of college play), Pennsylvania's burly center, Chuck Bednarik. That eliminated bidding between teams in each league but not between leagues. Nobody knew how much the traffic would bear. The Brooklyn Dodgers had signed Columbia's fullback, Lou Kusserow, but it was a fair bet that the Dodgers might not have...
Problems of Management. Under Dr. Pitzer's control will come the chain of laboratories which the AEC is building throughout the country. Much of his work will be top-secret, concerned with atom bombs and other nuclear weapons. An even greater responsibility of Pitzer's will be to make the atom serve-as well as threaten-civilization...
...wealthy California citrus grower and real estate man, Pitzer graduated with top honors from CalTech, did important war work whose nature is still a secret, and became an instructor in chemistry at the University of California when only 23. As head of AEC research, the bright geometry student will have to solve problems that no teacher has ever figured...
...that science is the backbone of a modern education, holds with few old school traditions, was a member of Britain's famed Fleming Committee to get underprivileged children into the public (i.e., private) schools. About the only break with tradition the Emperor had made was to abolish required top hats, and that was because of a shortage of toppers. Many Etonians were willing to bet that new Headmaster Birley might find some other Etonian practices...