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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...W. DOUGHERTY Dean of Engineering University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tenn...
...Hinton, W...
...Good Spot." How did the spy ring operate? Elizabeth Bentley detailed her furtive meetings with a young bureaucrat named William W. Remington. In 1942, she said, Remington was "in a good spot" with the War Production Board, where "he was dealing with aircraft production figures." (Until six weeks ago, when he was suspended, Remington was chairman of a Department of Commerce committee which collated secret information from many Government offices, including the Atomic Energy Commission. His committee's job: to determine what materials and goods should and should not be exported to Russia...
...approach the question, the Archbishop of Canterbury 32 months ago appointed a 13-member commission, headed by the Rt. Rev. John W. C. Wand, Lord Bishop of London, and including two lawyers and six doctors. Last week their conclusions were in: artificial insemination was permissible when the husband was the donor, but not otherwise...
...First "Colossal." Griffith brought a strange, yet significant, heritage to his work. His father was Colonel Jacob Wark ("Roaring Jake") Griffith, a Confederate cavalry officer given to florid readings of Shakespeare. Like him, young D. W. had a stentorian voice, a tough physical frame, and a character that mixed moral austerity with poetic sentiment. He absorbed the attitude of the post-bellum Southerner to the Nouhern carpetbagger and the problems of the new freed men. When his talents and his viewpoint merged in The Birth of a Nation, a story of the Civil War, the Reconstruction and the first...