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...Thing (RKO Radio) is a ferocious vegetable, eight feet tall, delivered on a flying saucer from another world. It bleeds green, howls like an aggravated banshee, multiplies by dropping seeds into the earth. It thinks like Einstein, looks like Frankenstein's monster and, like Dracula, thrives only on a diet of human blood...
Other participants in the symposium will be Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Elliott Coleman, Richard V. Chase, Jr., Egon Fritz-Vietta of Germany, Charles L. Stevenson, and Alfred V. Frankenstein, music and art critic...
...think there is a virtue in the extraordinary, you will surely enjoy this picture of Frankenstein. And even if you don't, the suspense generated by the Thing's spectacular appearances makes the movie worth seeing. The acting is competent for the most part, even though no "name" actors are involved...
...Frankenstein Monster? Mathematician Wiener had often said this before, and been pooh-poohed as an alarmist. Last week he was not laughed at. Allen N. Scares, vice president and general manager of Remington Rand, Inc., told of a machine, UNIVAC, manufactured by his company, that can do most of the numerical tasks now performed by flesh & blood clerks. In computing payroll checks, for instance, it "reads" (at 10,000 characters per second) two magnetic tapes with numbers coded on them. One tape carries all the data about each employee: his wage rate, tax status, pension deductions, etc. The other carries...
...many clerks UNIVAC would replace Scares did not say. He was confident that Remington Rand had not created a "Frankenstein [monster] which can turn upon us and wreck the very foundations of our society. History has demonstrated that there is an ultimate good in every new tool . . . The acceptance is gradual as the new tool proves its worth. It has never occurred as a sudden change...