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...long time ago: the moment that decided his future as a scientist. It was, he said, the sight of an ordinary compass at the age of five. One of his birthday presents, another honor: the new $10 million medical school to be built by Yeshiva University in The Bronx will be called the Albert Einstein College of Medicine...
Mathematics Teacher. Senator McCarthy's committee was investigating the Voice of America, but among its witnesses was Czech-born Julius H. Hlavaty, the present chairman of the mathematics department at the Bronx High School of Science. Dr. Hlavaty was testifying because he had delivered a broadcast for the Voice in 1949. At that time, said he, he was not a Communist, nor is he one today. But was he one in 1948? And had he tried to recruit students to the party in that year? Teacher Hlavaty refused to answer...
Homecoming Early last December, in one of the year's outstanding contributions to tabloid titillation, the New York Daily News led the pack in discovering Christine Jorgensen, the ex-G.I. from The Bronx who reported that Danish doctors had converted him into a woman (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week, fittingly, it was the News which best answered the "who, what, when, where" as it reported Christine's gala homecoming. Said the News: "Christine Jorgensen, the lad who became a lady, arrived home from Denmark yesterday, lit a cigarette like a girl, husked 'Hello' and tossed...
...eastern-front position called Luke the Gook's Castle, were later beaten off. Both attacks served merely as harassments, but they helped to make the winter nights ugly for U.N. troops. Shivering in three-above-zero cold on the Imjin sector, an 18-year-old soldier from The Bronx said: "It's like any other night-just too damned long." Probably no soldiers on earth really prefer fighting at night, but the Chinese and North Koreans have good and obvious reasons for avoiding daylight assaults. The U.N. artillery, close air support and air observation function best...
...leader of the pirates, said the prosecution, was one Elliot Burt Forrest, 29, Bronx-born operator of a Tangier nightclub and now a fugitive from justice. But the brains behind the exploit was Nylon Sid, who was lurking in Marseille waiting to dispose of the loot when the Esme's crew was captured. Spanish cops nabbed Nylon Sid when he skipped to Madrid; last week he faced trial before a U.S. consular court in the internationalized port of Tangier...