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...came quickly, but it took a year of haggling before the administration decided where to build Grays. The floorplan was shuttled around a huge map of the Yard, each site meeting with some objection. When the prints sat east of Holworthy, residents claimed this would block their view of Appleton Chapel. If placed behind what is now Weld Hall, argued others, it would choke the growth of the College library which might "expand to 750,000 or a million volumes some day." One position evoked few complaints and was virtually settled on until someone measured and found that the house...
...desirable slogan, why not "science for science's sake"? Modern scientists, whose goals are apt to be shaped by armed forces' research grants or a corporation's search for bigger & better laboratory-tested mousetraps, are diffident about performing their experiments for pure research purposes. Sir Edward Appleton, principal of the University of Edinburgh and a Nobel Prizewinner in physics, believes that "science for its own sake" is a slogan to be proud of. His thesis, as quoted in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: "Science is illuminating as well as fruitful." Says Sir Edward...
...crushers which could as easily have done in Ulysses or Sir Lancelot. A world war and stranger-than-fiction real inventions had furnished competitive excitements that made Tom .seem a little archaic. The paper shortage did not help, and almost as disastrous was the decision of Author Victor Appleton, Tom's creator, to let his hero marry sweet, pert Mary Nestor. Any ten-year-old boy could have told him that girl mush and Tom Swift just did not mix. To many a saddened fan it seemed best that Tom should...
...concession to the times that old Tom would have scorned: three scientists, all Ph.D.s, have been hired to ride herd as technical advisers. The publishers feel they are necessary, and they are probably right. Readers of the old series were content with plenty of action and took Author Appleton's say-so for proof that Tom was an inventive genius. Today's schoolboy savants want the incredible, but they want it backed by a patter of scientific know-how. And of course the dialogue has changed. The Tom of 1910 put real enthusiasm into...
...Appleton to Appleton. Just as the new series features Tom Swift Jr., the new author is listed as Victor Appleton II. What the older generation of readers never knew was that there never was a Victor Appleton, nor is there one now. The old Tom series was the product of the same writing factory that also churned out The Rover Boys, today produces, in addition to the new Tom, such solid moneymakers as The Bobbsey Twins and the Nancy Drew books. Originator of the assembly-line idea was an immigrant German organist's son named Edward Stratemeyer, who, before...