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...MacLean-Burgess story with still more details gleaned and pieced together by its overseas staffers. World traces its story back to the late 1930s, when leftward-leaning young MacLean, then the ambitious foreign-office cub, and his future wife first made friends with an other young couple-Italian-born Scientist Bruno Pontecorvo, a favorite pupil of France's Physicist-Communist Frederic Joliot-Curie, and Pontecorvo's Swedish mistress...
...Both scientists and laymen had ideas, and all week long they aired them to their hearts' content. "In my opinion, even though I am a scientist." wrote Chemist A. L. Bacharach, "fissionable (an Americanism, I believe), is not admissible, though fissile is." Nonsense, cried a gentleman from Churchfields. Woodford, "it is unquestionable that 'fissionable' is objectionable to the impressionable; but to the knowledgeable it is unexceptionable." Added someone from Harrow, Middlesex: "Fissionable is fashionable, and surely reasonably admissible. Fissible is risible...
...never looked up at his extended hand. Certainly it was not to detect the moisture on his finger tips from the blades of grass. If it were just to detect the type of turf and the footing why the extended hand? Also we saw no motions between the young scientist (?) and the press box. I realize Harvard has a School of Mines but surely he was not looking for uranium in the Yale Bowl. Incidentally, one of his observations was at the exact spot on the six-yard Harvard line where Yale was in possession of the ball and unable...
...give up. Can you answer this sixty-four dollar question? Incidentally, there were two gentlemen sitting in front of us who seemed to be just as bewildered by the antics of the serious young Harvard scientist as we were...
Hyam G. Yamins, Newton scientist suspected of espionage, who was also to appear either today or tomorrow is the open hearing, has also had his questioning deferred until the Boston heaving...