For one of those contracts, Bush turned not to an academic scientist or to an industrial lab but to a wealthy investment banker named Alfred Lee Loomis, an expert in chess and magic tricks, who wore perfectly pressed white suits and lived a double life. By day he worked on Wall Street. On evenings and weekends, he retired to a massive stone castle forty miles away in Tuxedo Park, New York. The castle was a semisecret, private research lab, brimming with equipment built or purchased to satisfy the curiosity of its owner.
