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Even a Washington conference was free in 1939. Fermi and Bohr were among those attending the spring meeting of the American Physical Society there, and Bohr went to the lectern to report on their work. He stated flatly that a projectile armed with a tiny fragment of U-235 under bombardment from slow neutrons could blow up most of the District of Columbia. As he lectured, delegates slipped in and out of the hall, placing long-distance calls to their campuses, and one young American, Robert Oppenheimer, was scrawling furiously away on a yellow pad, roughly calculating what the critical mass would be. There was a New York Times reporter at that meeting, but either he or his editors failed to grasp the full weight of what had happened. The Times did carry a brief account on the achievement of uranium fission. The next morning Dr. Luiz W. Alvarez was getting a haircut at the University of California when the story caught his eye. He leaped right out of the barber’s chair, swirled the sheet around him like a toga, and dashed into the Radiation Laboratory to spread the news.
The Glory and the Dream
William Manchester
If I haven’t said it enough, seeking community is a core driving force for me. When you’re working on a series, you get that feeling—big time. During that time, other opportunities arose to segue into features or take an executive role at a network, but I always turned them down. I was comfortable where I was. I’m lucky in a million different ways, up to and including the fact that the group of creatives with whom I’ve long been associated has allowed me to enjoy both continuity and longevity. When a series ended, several of us would wind up working together on another project, which mitigated the sadness of seeing something we had put our hearts and souls into come to a close. In a lot of ways, it was like being a part of a traveling circus. We each did our own act while playing off of one another, juggling the same projects simultaneously. It was always a wonderful mix of new and exciting, familiar and comfortable.
Right for the Role
John Frank Levey
No one ever worked harder at golf than Nicklaus during his teens and early twenties. At the age of ten, in his first year of golf, Jack must have averaged three hundred practice shots and at least eighteen holes of play daily. In later years, he would often hit double that number of practice shots and play thirty-six—even fifty-four—holes of golf a day during the summer. I have seen him practice for hours in rain, violent winds, snow, intense heat—nothing would keep him away from golf.
Golf My Way
Jack Nicklaus, Jim McQueen, and Ken Bowden
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