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Like the survivor of an accident who carefully feels out his sore spots, the Liberal Party went over itself last week. The contusions and abrasions were frightful. There had been not one accident, but three.
London Times reported that the "frightful" pictures had shocked many Americans; the Telegraph sniffed that they "can add nothing to the information, satisfaction or instruction of the public."
Last week more than 100 atomic scientists gathered at Oak Ridge to confer not about bigger, more frightful bombs, but about the peaceful applications of nuclear physics. The big job now was to spread atomic know-how, make industrialists, educators and the public aware of the benefits atomic discoveries might...
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt was getting nothing . . . nothing . . . for her wretched years of motherhood. She had been forced to sell a $75,000 diamond for $30,000. She was reduced to living in a $175-a-month Manhattan apartment. Last week tradesmen were boldly presuming to offer her jobs-the tabloid...
Said "Monsieur Helium": "European scientists have been forced to halt their experiments because of the frightful danger of a chain of atomic explosions which may cause the world to fly apart."