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England" meant the London area.* One M.P. denounced the censorship as "a complete farce"; others demanded that the casualty totals be published-on the grounds that rumor was magnifying them unduly. Thousands of Britons watched the buzz-bombs winging toward their targets. Among the watchers: Winston Churchill, his wife and daughter Mary...
Cabled a U.S. correspondent last week: "They are just as frightening today as they were the first night." Some Britons and propagandists still bravely belittled the "buzz-bombs." But the world's scientists were not taking them so lightly. None asserted that the new weapon would seriously affect the outcome of World War II, but many regarded the buzz-bombing of England as a crude preview of World...
Moon Professor. The buzz-bomb's inventor, by Stockholm report, is Hermann Oberth, 50, professor of physical astronomy at Berlin University. A stiff, old-fashioned pedagogue, Professor Oberth has long been famed in Europe as a writer on occultism and a pioneer in the study of interplanetary rocket flying. In 1923, when he published one of the first schemes for projecting a rocket into interplanetary space, he was nicknamed "the moon professor." He also predicted murderous rockets capable of being sent halfway around the earth and exterminating whole populations...
...capital in 1941. and the old U.S. Jungle Book and Thief of Bagdad pictured the adventures of Sabu. At the U.S. Army Air Forces' new bomber bases in western Russia (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), G.I. Joe chummed up with G.I. Ivan. U.S. Businessman Eric Johnston continued to buzz around the Soviet Union, impress his hosts with his smoothly plain talk (see BUSINESS). At the level where Russians, Britons and Americans actually met, international relations were of the best...
Back in New York, bulletins were so few that studio broadcasters had to talk their throats dry. CBS News Chief Paul White plugged in his teletypewriter-lined news room, let listeners hear the buzz and bells that filled it. His ace Manhattan newscaster, Bob Trout, was a marvel of glibness and endurance. Trout's performance was matched by Robert St. John, backstop for NBC News Head, William Brooks. TIME Views the News, on the Blue was consistently cool and factual...