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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer brought Yukawa to the U.S. in 1948 to work at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Last spring Columbia University named him visiting professor of physics. One day last week, Yukawa dismissed his class for the day and reported to the office of Columbia's President Dwight Eisenhower. There he received a warm handshake and hearty congratulations. At 42, Hideki Yukawa had become the first of his countrymen to win a Nobel Prize. The $30,000 prize in physics was awarded for the theory Yukawa had propounded 14 years ago. (The Nobel Prize...
...Well, it is very curious. When one works in daytime, it is easy to do your regular work. You have your desk, your paper convenient. But it is hard in daytime to get something that is completely different from conventional notions. So I used to work hard all day and get very tired and nervous. Then I could not sleep at night. Sometimes at night I thought of very interesting things. Almost always, in the morning, these things turned out to be untrue. But once in a great while one of them was true and unusual. This...
...again. The highest bid was a fixed fee of $950,000; the lowest, $100,000, was McShain's. Said McShain: "I figured nobody would go as low as that, so I bid it. I may not make a nickel on it, but I've done so much work in Washington, I just thought I'd like to add the White House...
...same day, presumably after reading Louella's stern blast, a penitent Judy Garland appeared at the studio, gave her solemn promise to take off the eight remaining pounds and to be prompt when she is called to work. Louella promptly forgave her: "Her little flurry of temperament is now yesterday's news, and we're all glad to forget...
...week's end, having made her peace with M-G-M and with L.O.P., Judy had managed to work off another four pounds in song & dance rehearsals, was plugging away at the last four pounds and hoping very hard to keep everybody happy...