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...rare gesture of across-the-Curtain appreciation, the top-drawer Soviet Union Academy of Sciences awarded membership to 30 non-Russian scientists and scholars, including two Americans: Nobel prizewinning Caltech Chemist Linus Pauling, 57, vociferous foe of nuclear testing, and Biophysicist Detlev W. Bronk, three-term president of the National Academy of Sciences, former president of Johns Hopkins University. Named a corresponding member: brilliant, furtive Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, 44, who fled to the U.S.S.R. from Great Britain in 1950 with a vast knowledge of A-bomb research...
...Brothers Fund Inc. of New York. Co-signers of the Defense Report: Investment Banker Frank Altschul, vice president, Council on Foreign Relations; General (ret.) Frederick L. Anderson, commander of the Eighth Bomber Command in World War II; onetime Assistant Secretary of the Army Karl R. Bendetsen; President Detlev W. Bronk of the National Academy of Sciences; former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon Dean; Physicist James B. Fisk of Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.; Investment Banker Bradley Gaylord; Lawyer Roswell L. Gilpatric, former Under Secretary of the Air Force; Investment Banker Townsend W. Hoopes; Johns Hopkins Administrative Officer Ellis A. Johnson; Harvardman...
...Johns Hopkins, it was the end of a long search. After President Detlev Bronk quit in 1953 to head the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, kindly Mathematician Lowell Reed came out of retirement at 67 to serve only until the university could find a younger man. Besides its prestige, Johns Hopkins had a special attraction for Dwight Eisenhower's brother: Baltimore is only a 45-minute train ride from Washington. "I shall come," said Milton Eisenhower to his new trustees, "with enthusiasm...
Among the notable discussants were Perry Miller, professor of American Literature; W. V. Quine, professor of Philosophy; Susanne K. Langer of Connecticut; Lewis Mumford; Sidney Hook of N.Y.U.; Ernest Nagel of Columbia; I. I. Rabi, Nobel-prize winning physicist of Columbia; Detlev W. Bronk, president of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; John E. Burchard, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, co-sponsor of the conference...
...Sunday afternoon, Bridgman, Charles Morris, professor of Philosophy at Chicago, and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, will speak on "Prospects for a New Synthesis" under chairman Detlev W. Bronk, president for the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research...