Word: chester
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whose Responsibility? But Bob Taft's case looked something like a dressed-up version of the other attacks. What he called the "Lilienthal report" was actually the combined product of such coauthors as Atomic Scientist Robert Oppenheimer, Bell Telephone's Chester Barnard, Monsanto Chemical's Dr. Charles A. Thomas. It had been approved by the State Department's special committee on atomic energy-which included such men as Harvard's James B. Conant, Major General Leslie R. Groves and onetime Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy. In the words of the report itself...
...Celebrated Lincoln's Birthday by standing at rigid attention under a wan February sun while Major General Harry Vaughan laid the presidential wreath at the foot of Daniel Chester French's brooding statue of Lincoln...
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' wife, Catherine, played the piano at a benefit for Washington's National Symphony, but only as an accompanist. Soloist: the Nimitz' wonder-spaniel, Freckles, who gave Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms such a sensitive interpretation (see cut) that he had to do three encores...
Married. The Duke of Westminster, 67, one of Britain's richest noblemen; and Ann Sullivan, 23, daughter of a Jersey* general; he for the fourth time, she for the first; near Chester, England...
Backfire. In Chester, Ill., an underwriters' association inspected the city's firehouse, found it was a fire hazard. In Corte Madera, Calif., Assistant Fire Chief George Menke, his house gutted by fire, finally discovered the cause: a short circuit in the automatic fire-alarm system...