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Premier Malenkov's announcement that Russia has the hydrogen bomb was aimed at the U.S., and as a verbal bombshell it was something of a dud. In Washington there was none of the ashen-faced confusion that followed the discovery, in 1949, that the Russians had exploded an atomic bomb. President Eisenhower heard the news and an hour later took off for Denver and vacation without comment...
...Dud. In Bakersfield, Calif., Marine Sergeant M. U. Johnson gingerly dismantled an unexploded bazooka rocket he found lying in an alley, discovered a note in place of the explosive: "What the heck are you looking for? You crazy...
Former cross country captain Emil San Soucie will come down from the two-mile to run the 1000, with Jack Richards and Guido Perera. These three, along with former freshman captain Dave Ingle and Dud Uphoff, are candidates for the two mile relay...
...Birth of Nation" was a propaganda dud...
Unlike most Broadway plays. The Gambler tries to say something. But though Playwright Betti shows metaphysical courage, he has little dramatic force. What with rhetorical flights on wings that collapse, and philosophical depth bombs that refuse to explode, the play is at most an interesting dud. It has suggestions of Pirandello without his wit, of Kafka without his vivid symbolism, of Dostoevsky without his vision, and of 19th century German romanticism with all its sentimentality. Nothing comes to life, least of all the language...