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...nuclear bombs began exploding in the Nevada desert in 1951, when Sheldon Nisson was five. "They used to tell us to get up and watch the blasts," recalls his mother Helen, who still lives in Washington, Utah, some 125 miles downwind from the test site. "We saw the clouds go over all the time. Our children played outside. All the while, the Government kept saying that it wouldn't hurt us." But when the last of 102 mushroom clouds rose above the desert in 1962, Sheldon Nisson was dead from leukemia. His cancer, along with that of nine other...
...party, Maimonides counsels, "Strive for moderation in all character traits . . . except for seeking honor, where the pious choose complete abstinence." The guest of honor would surely have stayed home. Rabbi Nisson Wolpin, Editor Jewish Observer New York City...
...second quarter, Paul Nisson scored for Winthrop on a reverse to the left side, but his team in need the extra point...
Jack Fadden has been around. He got started in athletics as a football and baseball player at Bridgeton (Maine) Academy, then took a two-year course in physical education at Posse Nisson in Boston. While Fadden was working in City Hospital, the head Harvard surgeon asked him to help in the College's medical room. So Jack did x-rays and physiotherapy there and kept at it during the two years he attended Harvard. After that, he went into the automobile business with ex-Governor Fuller, spent a year as trainer at Amherst (where he met Jordan), and then took...
...Nisson A. Finkelstein...