Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They squash their last teacher under a roller, stab their last classmate in gym ("Some little girl didn't hear me say 'unarmed combat,' " chides a teacher), and, having come into possession of some top secret information, they blow up their school with the latest atom bomb. From now on, St. Trinian's will be only a word-to be used every time a school window is broken, a classroom wrecked or an underclassman over-hazed. Otherwise, wrote Poet C. Day Lewis in a special dirge, St. Trinian's is gone...
...just this insistence on conformity that immigrant scientists like Einstein and Fermi, men largely responsible for building the atomic bomb, came here to escape. In alienating foreign scientists, then, America may lose this fertile source of scientific excellence. Moreover, as scholars find greater respect in Europe than here, this policy is politically unsound...
...enlisted men on a yeoman's holiday were firing at planes, flashed on a screen by a projector. An electrical apparatus records the hits, while the sound track blares the sounds of battle. "How are you doing?" yelled the Lieutenant. "Little rusty," the sailor yelled back, as a bomb explosion reverberated in the room...
...daytime radio, including soap operas, has scarcely felt a tremor from the Cott bomb. Biggest upheaval comes on Sunday when a long parade of shows-long on drama, short on comedy-presents big stars, e.g., Helen Hayes, Fredric March, Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer rotating on hosting NBC Star Playhouse, Sir Laurence Olivier in The Royal Theater, Jimmy Stewart in Six Shooter, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy in The Marriage. The most original...
...from Mars (Columbia, 3-D) produced by "Jungle Sam" Katzman, is about a new X-bomb. "If this X-bomb explodes," says Katzman, "it will interfere with the axis that the world goes round on." There will be invaders from space, but Katzman has not decided what they will look like: "They might be eggheaded or helmeted...