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Fail Safe first appeared as the Domesday Book of 1962, a propagandistic piece of fantascience in which Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler warned the world that at any moment a SAC computer might go crazy and cause a nuclear holocaust. Sold to a Hollywood operator for $500,000, the novel has now been made into a sensational scareshow that for the first hour or so will seem credible to civilians and keep their teeth chattering like Geiger counters. But as a work of art and an effort of polemic, Fail Safe labors under a special difficulty: Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick...
...gates of Buckingham Palace will swing open one day this week for a taxi bearing a 9½-lb. tome that to many Englishmen-particularly those whose names do not figure in its 3,088 pages-seems as monumentally irrelevant to postwar Britain as the Domesday Book. To scholars, snobs, statusticians and society hostesses, nonetheless, the 103rd and fattest-ever edition of Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage is an invaluable, intriguing gazetteer to the proliferating aristocracy...
...tricks of the scholar's trade to research and write it. They conned old documents, interviewed local authorities, counted everything from pigs to letter boxes. They found that Offord had also been known as Upeford, Opeford, Uppe-ford, Oppeford, Upford, Hupford and Up-pord. In the Domesday Book it was Uf-ford. One Arnulf de Hesding owned ten hides (1,000 acres) at Cluny Manor, and the Countess Judith owned three at Darcy Manor. A restored Cluny Manor still stands (Oliver Cromwell slept there), and some old Offonians still remember when it was haunted by a "little old lady...
Since 1932 the Motion Picture Herald, Domesday Book of the cinema industry, has made annual surveys to find out which cinema stars make most money for the box office. Heading the list for the first two years was the late, leather-lunged Marie Dressler. In 1934 the late Will Rogers succeeded her. In 1935 pampered Cinemoppet Shirley Temple, then 6 years old, took first place. In 1936, for the first time, the Herald polled not only the U. S. but the box offices of Ireland and the United Kingdom. Again Shirley Temple topped the list. Last month the Herald...
...After Domesday Book (1920) Edgar Lee Masters temporarily abandoned verse, wrote a series of thesis novels intended to demonstrate the spiritual superiority of the pre-indusrial Midwest over that of the present. His hostile biography of Lincoln gave evidence of his increasing concern with nationalism, since it presented Lincoln as the wrecker rather than the savior of the Union...