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...atmosphere had been pretty well exposed as hoaxes or hallucinations. But most people were still sure that some kind of unidentified flying object did exist, and they wanted some sense-making explanation. Last week they got the best one yet. It came from Dr. Urner Liddel, chief nuclear physicist for the Office of Naval Research...
...Mann home in California, Mann's daughter Erika rushed forth with a voluble explanation. About two weeks ago, she said, 75-year-old Dr. Mann got a letter from "a Cornell University physicist whom we know," inviting Mann to become a sponsor for a peace organization. The language was "highly civilized," and the seven names on the letterhead seemed "flawless." The names of Robeson, Fast et al. did not appear. "Otherwise, Dr. Mann would not have read further," said Miss Mann flatly...
...long time. It was founded (in 1911) with money left by a Portland steamboat and mining tycoon named Simeon Gannett Reed. Its first president, William T. Foster, had a knack for gathering bright scholars, and soon such men as Economist Paul Douglas, now U.S. Senator from Illinois, and Physicist Karl T. Compton, later president of M.I.T., were teaching there...
Died. Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov, 60, leading Soviet physicist and propagandist, president since 1945 of the U.S.S.R.'s Academy of Sciences, an organizer of the Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge; of unknown causes; in Moscow...
...Perrin's triumph some thoughtful folk professed to see a measure of Communist maneuvering. Joliot-Curie heads the nuclear chemistry laboratory at the College de France, and Perrin the experimental physics laboratory at the same institution. American visitors have reported remarkable goings-on at the Collège. Physicist Alexander Zucker of the Oak Ridge, Tenn. National Laboratory wrote in the current issue of Physics Today: "There is a Communist cell meeting every week . . . Laboratories in Paris are known by their political affiliations rather than by the work they do. Thus we have Clerical laboratories, Communist laboratories, Socialist laboratories...