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...physics at Cornell University, testified that he joined the Young Communist League at 19, moved into the party at 21, quit in 1940 when he was 25. In 1942, Morrison went to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atom bomb at Los Alamos, N. Mex. In 1945, he went to the Pacific to help ready the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs. He said his break with Communism was clean, but he granted that only last month he had attended a meeting sponsored by the commie-lining American Peace Crusade in New York...
Avocation. In Aztec, N. Mex., Prisoner Elmer Morrow, acting as gardener for the courthouse grounds, was freed, but asked (and got) permission to stay in jail long enough to finish the spring planting...
Passing Show. In Las Cruces, N. Mex., Charles Coleman, arrested a third time for automobile theft, told police: "When I see a new car, I just can't resist...
Prayer Meeting. In Ciudad Juarez, Mex., two pickpockets kneeling in a church robbed Andres Quinonez of his wallet and $13 while he was praying, were arrested by a policeman kneeling behind them...
Good Try. In Los Alamos, N. Mex., Joe Quintant, charged with failing to display 1953 plates on his car, was excused by the judge when he explained that the last time he tried to put on the new plates, an old back injury flared up and sent him to the hospital for three weeks...