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...acre site on Long Island which used to be Camp Upton, a vast World War II reception center, is now mostly a collection of slatternly abandoned barracks. But its flatlands have a new destiny: on them will grow a monster of the atomic age-a workshop for the strange, powerful, ominous machines of modern nuclear physics...
...Camp Upton the U.S. Government, through the Atomic Energy Commission, last week formally began a project called Brookhaven National Laboratory, which will eventually cost about $50,000,000. Nine major Eastern universities will jointly administer the laboratory, which will have a permanent staff of 300 scientists and 2,000 other personnel. Visiting scientists will come to Brookhaven to use the costly equipment...
...young American favorites showed up short of wind, but still long-winded. The late Theodore Dreiser's last novel, The Bulwark, had the weight, but not the distinction, of a Percheron. Upton Sinclair's A World to Win did no more than mark another 600-odd pages in the improbable progress of Hero Lanny Budd. William Saroyan's The Adventures of Wesley Jackson presented a moist and flaccid soul behind a bold front. Pearl Buck's Pavilion of Women was not of great price...
...Other graduates and former students: the late General George Goethals, '77, Rabbi Stephen Wise, '92, Upton Sinclair, '97, Senator Robert F. Wagner, '98, Conductor Alexander Smallens, '09, John Kieran, '12, Edward G. Robinson...
...Upton Close, pompous radiocaster, Anglophobe, labor-baiter, Red-baiter, whose radio punditing deals as often with fancy as with fact; Merwin K. Hart, insurance lawyer, author, lecturer, admirer of Franco's Spain and scorner of the word "democracy," who once declared: "Tougher products result from a Fascist education"; John T. Flynn, writer, vitriolic and acid-tongued spearhead of the prewar, now defunct, America First Committee...