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...California's radiation laboratories, the agents reported that he was cozying up after hours to Steve Nelson, a known Communist leader. But it was not until 1949 that the House Un-American Activities Committee identified Scientist X as a black-haired young physicist named Dr. Joseph W. Weinberg, and flatly accused him of passing wartime atomic secrets to Nelson...
...president Robert Weinberg makes a deliberate attempt to get out-of-the-ordinary speakers. "Our big purpose is to get Yale excited about something other than football," he says, "and in order to do that you have to get something unusual." Some of the PU's most successful meetings have been clashes between Bill Buckley, Yale's own medival historian, and various defenders of academic freedom. Despite Buckley's persuasive arguments, the house has endorsed freedom of conscience each time...
...Labour Party, of which Weinberg was a member until he became president and had to abandon any party affiliation, now is the smallest of the three parties. It includes everything from Fair Deal Democrats to militant Progressives, like Weinberg himself. In pre-war days the party had several Communist members, but today there are none--at least openly. A neo-fascist bloc also is supposed to have flourished within the Conservative party prior to 1941, but all traces of that too have vanished
...Other Winchells. The busiest of these unpaid, unsung legmen, as the Post tells it, are Pressagents Ed Weiner, Curt Weinberg and Irving Hoffman. Weiner is the columnist's "lobbyist, contact-man, straight-man-about-town"; Hoffman is a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter; Weinberg was Singer Josephine Baker's drum beater until the Stork Club incident, then Weinberg hastily dropped her. Also chased from the Winchell closet was another figure that few other ghosts even knew about: Herman Klurfeld, 35, who sticks close to his Long Island home and is paid a reported $250 a week by Winchell...
...Other codefendants, cleared of any responsibility in damaging Central States, included such Wall Street notables as Lawyer John Foster Dulles, Sidney Weinberg, partner of Goldman, Sachs (TIME, June 11); Clarence Dillon, head of Dillon, Read & Co.; Waddill Catchings, former senior partner of Goldman, Sachs and co-author of The Road to Plenty, which helped inspire Herbert Hoover's 1929 theory of permanent prosperity...