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Russians who covet the atomic bomb seemed to be able to find a whole molecule of comfort in not having it. Last week the illustrated weekly Ogonek ("Glimmer") reported (in all seriousness): "In America psychiatrists are worried about a new disease called Atom Madness. Every day lunatic asylums are receiving several persons who complain that they are beginning to split. Others say that they have discovered a new bomb which will destroy the earth and all the other planets...
...dimension of measurement itself." Pun Pudding. These tiny pills of theory were carefully concealed in a pudding of puns, skits and music. Human Adventure, setting out to be both entertaining and educational about Einstein, was only partly instructive, not wholly entertaining. Fadiman tried to give his hearers a glimmer of the theory's importance : atomic scientists had used it, he said, in calculating the amount of energy in an atom. Concluded Fadiman: "Before Einstein, there was one essential error in the logic of physics - it considered...
Highest ranking and most outspoken of German radio commentators is Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, who was retired from the Finnish front in 1941 because of illness. Last week Dittmar, finding no glimmer of cheer in the black situation, recalled the glorious career of Frederick II ("Frederick the Great") of Prussia, onetime idol and inspiration of Adolf Hitler. Frederick had fought the Seven Years' War (1756-63) against a formidable coalition-Austria, France, Russia, Sweden. Finally, with some help from England, he wore them all out. For eleven years before 1756, Frederick had built up his army, laid down immense...
What Will the U.S. Do? The confusion extended to nearly every Italian. People with not enough money for proper food bought newspaper after newspaper, pathetically looking for guidance. Impartially they read Communist, Socialist, Vatican, Monarchist or Republican papers-anything that might offer a glimmer of light. A generation of corrupt Fascism, months of brutal German occupation, sapped their capacity to think for themselves. Italians were the children of a dead past, facing an uncertain future. In bewilderment they asked: "What will Britain do? Russia? Above all, what will America do?" They never asked: "What will...
...full fury of that attack could not yet be measured. There was no time for the statistics of destruction. But there were bits and pieces that gave a faint glimmer of what the Germans faced this week. In two days, fighters of the U.S. Eighth Air Force (ordinarily bombers' escorts) destroyed nearly 1,000 trucks and vehicles. The Ninth Air Force fighters ran up an even larger score-nearly 1,800 vehicles. The big strategic bombers-Fortresses and Liberators, night-flying Lancasters and Halifaxes, every aircraft that could tote a bomb-raked the lines of retreat that reached back...