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Word: walliser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once, asked to omit stories exploiting the grief of bereaved families, the Mirror declined in terms that capsuled the Bartholomew credo: "Are editors to be asked to say that this or that is not nice news? ... A news editor with that type of mind would be like a general with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Man In the Mirror | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

One question she tried, and failed, to get the right answer to is: Who are they?- the fabulous anonymities people refer to in saying, "This is what they are wearing." Was it Mrs. Harrison Williams, Wallis Windsor, the French designers, the Sophie Gimbels? Finally, she asked Sophie: "Are you a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 29, 1947 | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

At week's end, two months after the suspects had been found, the FBI arrested von der Luft and Wallis. They were charged with stealing Government property.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Atomic Souvenirs | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Both men were carefully checked before the Army assigned them to the Los Alamos atom-bomb plant in 1944. Heavy-set Alexander von der Luft, 23, had been born in Wilmington. His father was an official of the American Cyanamid and Chemical Corp. at Bridgeville, Pa. Von der Luft had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Atomic Souvenirs | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

The FBI traced von der Luft to Princeton, where he had returned to finish his engineering studies. In his room, they found over 200 pages of handwritten notes and documents on atomic processes, other data in the family safe in his home in Mount Lebanon, Pa. Wallis was run down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Atomic Souvenirs | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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