New York Evening Post

In 1950, Mark became the first western scientist to contact counterparts in the post-war Soviet Union. Renewing old friendships dating back to Vienna on the first visit, he has been treated to a number of special tours of the chemistry establishments of Russia since then. In return he and Mimi have hosted a number of Soviet scientists in New York and at their summer home at Lake Peekskill, NY. Even today he maintains close contact with many of them. One of his major contributions to science in the Soviet Union was his able service on the organizing committee of the Polymer Institute at Lomonosov State University in Moscow in 1963. 

One dark evening in February of this year, I walked into the office of the editor of the New York Post—Home News and said to Mr. T. O. Thackrey Ted, Palestine is getting pretty hot. I think I d better go take a look at it. ... 

In an editorial in the Evening Post in 1844, William Cullen Bryant first called for the building of a large public park in New York. Bryant s idea went on to become Central Park. 

William L. Laurence, The Atom Gives Up," Saturday Evening Post, September 7, 1940, 12-13, 60-63. Laurence, Men and Atoms The Discovery, the Uses, and the Future of Atomic Energy (New York Simon and Schuster, 1959), 268. Lawrence, Dawn over Zero (New York Knopf, 194. ... 

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