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...lying." The Rakosi expropriation began with a police raid. At around dinner time on Sept. 18, police entered the Budapest apartment of MAORT's president, Paul Ruedemann, and its director and technical adviser, George Bannantine. The two were taken to the forbidding grey stone pile at 60 Andrassy Ut which had once been headquarters for Hungary's branch of Hitler's Gestapo and is now used by the Hungarian version of the Soviet MVD. Three hours later questioning began...
...briskly with what looked like another success by prolific Terence Rattigan (The Winslow Boy, O Mistress Mine). Called Playbill, it was a program of two one-acters: The Browning Version, a study of an embittered schoolmaster, and A Harlequinade, which pokes fun at highbrow theater. Rattigan, whose annual royalties pile up to about $100,000, also has a new drama about Alexander the Great scheduled for a winter opening, and is working on a comedy...
...Daniels Pile. Admittedly, the Manhattan District had been over-optimistic in its prediction. When it plunged into the power project two years ago, no one had made more than a start on any of the major technical problems. Skilled scientists and industrial engineers were at a premium. But the Army had a mild, sharp-nosed little chemistry professor named Farrington Daniels, who took on the job of designing a full-sized nuclear reactor to produce power. By mid-1947, Daniels and his team were well into the vast problems confronting them. They reported that the basic difficulties should be solved...
Then the Atomic Energy Commission (which took over from Manhattan District) yanked the foundation from under the Daniels pile. Practical work on a $10-20 million power plant was premature, it said. The wise course was to abandon a frontal assault on the problem and switch to a low-priority program of cautious, long-range experimentation...
...Brooklyn pier one morning last fortnight, a detail of U.S. customs officers quietly moved in on a pile of 600 neat, wooden crates. Customs Inspector Jacob Ehrlich pried into one of the crates with a crowbar. Cried he: "Just as I thought!" His companions pressed closer, saw a gleaming white water closet. They seized the entire $10,500 shipment...