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...Pittsburgh's grimy Gothic Cathedral of Learning went Dr. Gilbert D. McCann last week, there to bait his traps for thunderbolts and thus officially open the 1943 lightning season. Other claptraps (more than 200) were set out along power lines, on forest watchtowers, atop radio masts and the tall stacks of copper smelters-wherever lightning is likely to strike twice...
Young (31) Dr. McCann has been a Westinghouse lightning hunter for five years. His full-time job is the study of lightning's quirks for the protection of life and property, particularly the vulnerable equipment of power companies, and-these days-explosives plants. Because he cannot always whistle up a black thunderhead to observe, between bolts he works with laboratory lightning...
...MCCANN Houston...
...CASTLE ON THE HILL-Elizabeth Goudge-Coward-McCann ($2.50). This rather touching, mildly mystical story of England-after-Dunkirk transforms England's caste system into one big family of stout-fellas. High point of this social salad-mixing comes when a shy little housekeeper, Miss Brown, proposes to her elderly patrician employer, Charles Birley. No snob, Birley prefers bachelorhood. But Miss Brown's leveling instincts achieve satisfaction in others who need her: two cockney children and a soul-sick refugee violinist whom she selflessly agrees to marry...
Downcast last week was Mr. Cameron; downcast was the Detroit Symphony, 76 of whose 81 members will no longer make a minimum of $26 extra per week; down cast was McCann-Erickson, Ford's advertising agency, over the loss of a big slice of Ford business. But no more morose than usual was Radio Comic Fred Allen, who will move in to CBS's coveted Sunday evening spot on March...