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When the plan backfires, Marilyn and her lover (Richard Allan) wind up dead at the hands of the husband, who takes his punishment by going over the falls in a drifting boat...
Poet W. H. Auden, a recent collaborator on the libretto for The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky, was appointed to the William Allan Neilson Research Professorship at Smith College...
Realistic Odds. Headmaster Allan V. Heely, '19, of the Lawrenceville School, believes that the younger generation is "harder to fool than we were . . . [It] is fired by the same romantic ardors that bemused and entertained its elders; but it places more realistic odds on the probability of their fruition. This realism is not the expression of deep intellectual or philosophical convictions; nor is it to be interpreted as superficial adolescent cynicism. These young people are aware merely that you cannot count on as much as you used to be able...
...N.Mex., in July 1945, someone tipped off Moscow. The Russians quickly followed up the tip. In the files of the Russian intelligence services in Moscow there was the name of a British physicist, a secret member of the Communist Party, then working on the atomic project in Canada: Dr. Allan Nunn...
...later, British and U.S. counterespionage agents ran down the now familiar roster of traitors: Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold, David Greenglass, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Only then did the full significance of the atomic spy ring dawn on the free world. All this while, in Britain's Wakefield prison, Allan Nunn May had proved an exemplary prisoner, becoming a trusty and working as a librarian, and earning all the remission allowed by British law for good behavior. This week, after serving two-thirds of his time (six years eight months), Atomic Physicist Allan Nunn May was released, his debt...