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I highly recommend "109 East Palace". We tend to forget that momentous happenings like the Manhattan Project were products of the human mind. In the case of "109 East Palace", all of the scientific luminaries of the time passed through this address. Dorothy McKibben, the office manager was on a first name basis with all of them. Every time I pass by that address I can't help but pay a brief homage.
Jeannet Conant's account puts a human face on those heady times. Robert Oppenheimer's Friday afternoon cocktail hours with Oppenheimer's legendary martinis were legendary. They was more than one Nobel Laureate who had to be extricated from the shrubbery.
CJ
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