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...TIME'S thanks to Reader Gore-Booth for his correction-a figure hitherto unpublished by either the U.N. or the Pentagon...
Amidst loud cries of wounded pride and outrage, the new manager proceeded to drop 39 singers, including hitherto sacrosanct Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior, 60, whose wanderings from the score had been the bane of Met conductors for years. There were wild charges that Manager Bing, Vienna-born and German-trained, would try to force even more of the heavy dumpling of Wagner down the throats of audiences that are notably partial to lighter Italian and French fare. (Actually, Bing has little enthusiasm for Wagner.) When he signed famed Soprano Kirsten Flagstad to appear at the Met for the first time since...
...nervous systems of newts. His chief interest was the nerves themselves, but in the course of the experiments he found out that if he damaged the nerves in the stump of an amputee newt, the newt failed to grow a new limb. Dr. Singer concluded that a hitherto neglected function of the nerves, the promotion and control of growth, was responsible. He decided to experiment further...
...existing draft law as currently administered does not go far enough," the report report says later; "it needs to be more drastic, possibly in respect to the utilization of men hitherto classified 4F. Also we should at once make provision for universal military training...
Lecturing in Manhattan, British Philosopher and Nobel Prizewinner Bertrand Russell predicted a future genetics contest between Russia and the U.S. "to breed a race stronger, more intelligent, and more resistant to disease than any race of man that has hitherto existed...