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Good or Evil? What will this knowledge mean to mankind, which lives in fear and bewilderment of the knowledge it already has? Raymond B. Fosdick, president of the Rockefeller Foundation (which financed the telescope), told the scientists gathered on Palomar Mountain...
...Orator Fosdick, no scientist himself, tried hard to be optimistic: ". . . This telescope can furnish our stricken society with some measure of healing perspective. This great new window to the stars will bring . . . into fresh focus the mystery of the universe, its order, its beauty, its power. ... Adrift in a cosmos whose shores he cannot even imagine, man spends his energies in fighting with his fellow man over issues which a single look through this telescope would show to be utterly inconsequential...
Visually demonstrating how he creates comic-strip characters "Fearless Fosdick" and "Daisy Mac," cartoonist Al Capp added, "I get most of my ideas for characters by just coning to smokers like this...
Others lined up for tonight's bill include comedian-pianist Victor Borge; Al Capp, creator of "Fearless Fosdick"; Coach Art Valpey in his first public appearance; and WEEI disc-jockey Sherman Feller, who will be master of ceremonies...
...Billing, 53, jut-jawed, Red-chasing propagandist; and Jeremiah Stokes, 70, Mormon elder; each for the second time; in Chicago. Anti-Semitic Mrs. Dilling made her first big noise in 1934 with her finger-pointing book, The Red Network (among the "Reds" she discovered: William Allen White, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Eleanor Roosevelt), more recently starred in person as a defendant in the noisy 1944 Sedition Trial fiasco...