Word: hahn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school that stamps an Englishman for life is not his ''preparatory" school but his "public" school. Philip's was Gordonstoun, a school as young and experimental as Cheam is old and tradition-encrusted. Its founder, a strong-minded German schoolmaster named Kurt Hahn, believed that education should provide "the moral equivalent of war" by facing boys with plenty of hard work, physical danger and a rugged regimen. Philip, whose four sisters had all married German princes, was originally entered at a similar school Hahn had founded in Germany, but his tendency to roar with uncontrollable laughter whenever...
From one of West Germany's principal nuclear-research centers, the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Göttingen, came an unexpected rejoinder. Led by four Nobel Prizewinners-among them 77-year-old Otto Hahn, the first man to split the uranium atom-18 scientists proclaimed their "great worry" over Adenauer's proposal. One hydrogen bomb, they warned, could render the whole Ruhr Valley "uninhabitable." Worse yet, "the entire West German Republic could be rubbed out" by spreading radioactivity. The hooker: all 18 pledged themselves not to help the West German government...
...career, moved into the quarterfinal round of the national amateur squash championships in New York, yesterday. In his first match, the Crimson captain defeated Joe Talbot, 15-5, 15-4, and 15-5, and then proceeded to move into the round of eight with a convincing win over Ed Hahn...
...Hahn, a two time national champion, could not match the speed and power of his young opponent, losing in three games...
...Publishing gimmicks seldom appear alone. Next month two collections of essays about married life (by Emily Hahn and Eric Hatch) will appear in the same back-to-back book form...