I hunted down this book in the spring after a long, long search.....and since then, have been reading away in spurts...and, what better day to finish it than a dull, rainy one - it was dull.I wanted and got not enough of the early days of Julia and Paul Child's life together. What I got was a lot...
In 1943, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant, charismatic head of the Manhattan Project, recruited scientists to live as virtual prisoners of the U.S. government at Los Alamos, a barren mesa thirty-five miles outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thousands of men, women, and children spent the war yea...
On May 4, Oppenheimer circulated a memo from Washington. The War Department sent its congratulations to the scientists, but cautioned them against thinking that this development meant their services were no longer required. There would be no break in the all-out drive to complete the bomb.RESTRIC...
While she was none the worse for wear, it was not a package tour she cared to repeat anytime soon. She had to keep shaking herself in order to realize she had survived the journey and was actually there. Major John D. MacDonald,* the commanding officer of the small OSS camp in Colombo, found her ...
It is impossible for me to adequately express my gratitude to Robert and his wife, Elizabeth, for their extraordinary hospitality, generosity, and kindness. Not only did they provide bed and board at their beautiful Virginia farm, answer endless questions about the family, no matter how frank, bu...