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Since the first atomic bomb exploded, a few earnest scientists have been trying, like Dickens' fat boy, "to make your flesh creep." But it took a science editor to do a really competent flesh-creeping job. Last week Perry Githens, editor of Popular Science, gave Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club (advertising men) some thoughts to shudder over...
...Russian officer turns to leave the American, German, Englishman, and French woman he has met on the Berlin express, he lets fall to the pavement the card bearing the American's address. An insidious fear begins to creep up on the moviegoer; surely this allegorical film of our times is going to justify all the advance publicity given it by the Hearst press. But "Berlin Express" is an American film and all must still be for the best; the Russian alights from the jeep, picks up the card, smiles for the first time during the picture, and waves goodbye...
...Tolstoy's complex scaffolding of historico-religious theory, eliminated the subplots, preserved only the central study of a falling woman, with a few glimpses of the high society she fell from. This might have been sufficient if the film had also saved a suggestion of the dreadful glacier-creep of Tolstoy's characterization. Instead, the camera work is uniformly uninspired, and the psychological glacier dissolves into teary slush...
...atmosphere. It is very thin (probably equivalent to the earth's atmosphere 50,000 ft. above sea level), but sometimes small white clouds can be seen floating in it. Yellow dust storms rage across the Martian plains. The Martian poles show white spots, suggesting icecaps, that creep in winter down to latitude 50 degrees (equivalent to the latitude of Winnipeg), and disappear in the Martian summer. When the "icecaps" retreat, they leave greenish areas that resemble vegetation...
...summer's end, businessmen began to build up their inventories. The drop in prices, such as it was, had not lasted long or gone far. Domestic demand began to creep up again. Most significant example: the housing boom, which had been almost busted by high construction prices in the spring, turned into a boom again. By year's end, the U.S. had started an estimated 860,000 housing units (up 28% above 1946) and was building in the last quarter at the rate of well over 870,000 starts a year...