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...hour, lean, pale Admiral André Marquis and grim Admiral Jean Marie Abrial had been waiting in the dock. The public that jammed the somber, oak-paneled Salle des Congrés at Versailles-where the High Court has been trying Vichy officials-had been buzzing with impatience. Since 2 p.m. the Court had been ready to proceed with Admirals Marquis and Abrial, accused of conspiring to keep the French Navy out of Allied hands in 1942.* But eleven of the 24 deputies on the jury panel had not appeared...
...press, eager but uneasy, got its first look last week at a uranium pile in operation. The occasion: the sale at Oak Ridge of a pile-made radioactive isotope, produced as a peaceful by-product of atom bomb plutonium...
Full of modesty and the morale vitamin, Jeff comes home from the wars with a Congressional Medal of Honor, is boomed for the State Senate by his G.I. buddies, gives the "Oak Falls" machine its first lambasting in 20 years. After one slapdown in the Senate he finds his political legs, starts chasing political rats. First rat: the grafting director of a state insane asylum. Next on the fighting Senator's agenda: underpayment of teachers, black-market babies, maladministration of prisons...
...Oak Falls on the map is 36-year-old Lou Cowan, a 6-ft.-3 in., 214-lb. Ph.D. (in history) from the University of Chicago. He hit radio's big time in 1940 by producing Quiz Kids, which still writes him an annual check in six figures. After a wartime stint as boss of OWI's hub office in New York, Cowan went back to show-packaging-producing and selling programs complete from stars to sound cues. Senator was his second postwar production, second sale. (The first: a transcribed series, Murder at Midnight.) To shape it, Cowan...
Northeast National Laboratory is one of three atomic research projects planned by the War Department. The second, the Argonne National Laboratory at Chicago, is already in operation, and a third will be selected in the Far West at a future date. Part of the Clinton Engineering Laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tenn., will also be used in the research project...