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...Monday (CBS, 7:15-7:30, E.W.T.) Welles was in better form. He had a more Martian subject-aviation (Ceiling Unlimited), for Lockheed Aircraft Corp. His thesis: the absurdity of U.S. isolation. He let some veterans in an Old Soldiers' home argue the point. The plane was ending U.S. isolation, and the old soldiers, assisted by Welles's high-voltage narration, eventually agreed. The air drama had pace, sense, suspense, and a skillful touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Orson at War | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

Martin B-26 (Martian) - two-engine air-cooled. This is also a battle-tested plane, comparable with the B25. No nation but the U.S., so far as is known, has so efficient a plane in its class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: A Report to the People | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

Five hundred skirted Seniors of Stephens Junior College for Women at Columbia, Missouri, are rumored to be planning an invasion of Harvard as arousing as the fabled Martian attack and as irresistable as Professor Merk's westward movement, threatening to disrupt completely College routine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 500 Skirted Seniors May Lighten Crimson Skies Soon | 2/7/1942 | See Source »

...important than the gospel. Nowhere did the straight radio reports of terrific bombing at Honolulu-of Jap pilots diving over the beautiful mountains to fire U.S. ships and kill U.S. men-create anything resembling the panic created three years ago by Orson Welles's famed faking of a Martian invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: U. S. Radio at War | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Hardships endured by midnight watches in the smaller dome belonging to the six-inch refractor were experienced by those who had to squat down on the floor in the cold night air to see Mars. A College Junior amplified the spectacle by recalling his recent observations of the receding Martian...

Author: By Robert S. Sturgis, | Title: CRACKPOTS, INQUISITIVE OPEN-NIGHT VISITORS BELEAGUER ASTRONOMERS | 10/31/1941 | See Source »

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