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...effective U.S. detection system sensitive enough to pick up traces of important Soviet land or air bursts. For the first time the name of the hero of the system slipped into public print last week, when President Eisenhower presented a Distinguished Federal Civilian Service Award to Atomic Detective Doyle L. (for Langdon) Northrup...
Stifled Scandals. French newspapers hinted at wider repercussions, at even more extensive political involvements. "The search for truth in this affair," cautioned L'Express, "will require justices with plenty of independence and magistrates with plenty of character and a high sense of duty." The lawyers on one side of the case included the attorney who once represented King Mohammed V of Morocco, and ex-Premier Edgar Faure, whose government had given Morocco its independence. Paris-Presse warned that "other characters" who have played "great roles in our postwar history" might come into the case, warned: "This affair must...
Only then did the poet, Robert L. McCulloh, head of the university news bureau, speak up. There is no subject, said he, but the vocabulary is demanding, all right. Word-dazzled one night while browsing through a thesaurus, onetime Newsman (Neosho, Mo. News) McCulloh wrote 35 especially incandescent words on separate pieces of paper. Then he stuck them in a box, pulled them out at random, tacked them together with appropriate connectives, and added a wry title: Counterfeit Generation...
After the two touring companies of Auntie Mame ran afoul of the movie and decided to pull up stakes, and after the New York Li'l Abner company died in Toronto and Sunrise at Campobello sank Jan. 6 in Toledo, with total losses of about $200,000, the lists last week showed only seven shows on tour. The reason was no secret. Subscription-sponsored tours, such as those promoted by the Theatre Guild through 23 cities, have a fighting chance, but big-name actors no longer like to hit the road, and road-show audiences are no longer satisfied...
...Double (NTA Pictures). In the spring of 1944, not long before Dday, Adolf Hitler had reason to congratulate himself on the efficiency of German intelligence in North Africa. All along the air route from the Rock to the Nile, agents picked up rumors that General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery was making a secret inspection tour of Allied forces in the area, and several of the best reported that they had actually seen and spoken with the general. The Germans knew that invasion of Europe was imminent, but they were not dead sure where it would come from. So just...