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Last week's atomic conversation: ¶ Alamogordo, N. Mex. was abuzz with the news that red Hereford cows had turned white following the first atomic explosion nearby. At Carrizozo, a black cat had turned half white. At Bingham. a rancher blamed the atom for grey streaks in his beard...
Rice-eating Southerners, the slim, shrewd sophisticates of Chekiang and Fukien, would go back to their poems, books and lotus seeds. Canton's markets and midnight snackeries would be abuzz again. The Hangchow people would see their lovely lakes. The Soochow girls would croon their languid songs...
Ever since last year, when he contributed $160,000 to the then-ailing, now-flourishing Detroit Symphony, Henry H. Reichhold has had the musical world abuzz with rumors. Said rumor: he was about to start 1) a musical magazine of national circulation; 2) a new recording company to rival Columbia, Victor and Decca; 3) a national concert-booking agency; 4) a national record-of-the-month club...
Every now & then Manhattan's glassy Museum of Modern Art stages a strange but provocative show. Some visitors are impervious; others leave with their bonnets abuzz. Last week, on the somewhat dusty subject, "Are Clothes Modern?," the" Museum confronted visitors with some sharp displays and comments by Austrian-born Architect-Designer Bernard Rudofsky. On the thesis that clothes are always artificial, often absurd, sometimes harmful, the exhibition ranged from clanky chest armor to bird-cage bustles...
...terrible novelty of V-2 had by no means worn off yet, but London last week was already abuzz with speculation about V-3-supposedly an atomic bomb. Allied bombers renewed their attentions to Rjukan, Norway, the site of a heavy-water plant which the Nazis have recently rebuilt after its destruction by the R.A.F. and Norwegian patriots last year. Meanwhile, British censors passed a London dispatch giving the most circumstantial account to date of atomic bomb possibilities...