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...Last week he admitted that it was true: in 1937 Frank and Jacquinette, naively looking for a cure for the world's woes, had joined the Communist Party; they had quit, disillusioned, 3½ years later. During the war he worked on atomic projects in California, at Oak Ridge and at the Los Alamos laboratory run by his brother Robert, and had received a letter of praise from Major General Leslie R. Groves, wartime chief of the atomic-bomb program...
...Shortridge High. Indianapolis. Gresham Glen Edward of 210 Highland Avenue, Highland Park Mich.; Highland Park High, Osnes. David Marvin of 1530 Wellesley Drive Detroit: Cranbrook School Bloomfield Hills. Mich Piehl, DeWayne Jorvian of Box 42. RR No. 2 St. Joseph, Mtch; St. Joseph High Stegman Anthony Edward of 2882 Oak Grove Drive, Poatiac Mtch.: Catholic Central High Detroit...
...Washington unrolled its plushiest red carpet for the wan, wiry veteran of the cold war. At the airport Louis Johnson bundled him into a long, black Cadillac and whisked him off to the White House. There, in the sunlight of the presidential rose garden; President Truman pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster on the riband of General Clay's Distinguished Service Medal and read a praise-packed citation he had written himself. "General Clay," intoned the President, ". . . proved himself not only a soldier in the finest tradition . . . not only an administrator of rare skill, but a statesman...
...Noble Hall, 76, British-born veteran reporter, lecturer and author; after a stroke; in Manhattan. In 1946, suffering from a thyroid cancer, Hall offered himself as a human guinea pig. From glasses handed him in tongs at arm's length, he drank "Hiroshima Cocktails" (radioactive iodine from the Oak Ridge atom pile) which slowed the cancer. Knowing that the cure was incomplete, he had time to write detailed notes for the doctors...
...approach which limited travel by air. Trippe proclaims in his high and earnest voice: "The average man has been the prisoner of two keepers, time and money." Having conquered time, Trippe hopes to cut fares so that anybody with a two-week vacation -the Detroit auto mechanic and the Oak Park schoolmarm-can "spend it abroad. His eventual goal: a $200 round trip to London, with other foreign fares to match. He is ready to cut the present round trip London fare of $630 ($466.70 on a special winter rate) to $405, whenever his foreign and U.S. competitors will string...