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From Yokohama to Nagasaki, Japanese last week hummed, whistled and sang Ringo No Uta (The Song of the Apple). It was Japan's first big sentimental song hit since 1941, when Japanese music went martial. Tokyo's radio station JOAK got 100 requests a day for it. It had sold 200,000 phonograph records and 50,000 copies of sheet music, and would have sold more if its publishers had had the materials. Even G.I.s hummed it. Apple's lyrics, translated...
...newsworthiness of his Harvard office and previous achievements as a chemist, has been given the greatest attention. This play in the press and radio is well merited, for he took a vital role in the project that began in 1940 and reached a climax at Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...more of the 125,000 atom-bomb casualties at Hiroshima and Nagasaki than were first reported came from the explosion's X-ray-like radiations. This fact, which medicine has long suspected, was confirmed last week by Captain Shields Warren, crack pathologist of the U.S. Naval Technical Mission to Japan...
...much harder-hitting report on atomic warfare by 21 leading theologians, including the Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr and Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun of Washington. "Deeply penitent for the irresponsible use already made of the atomic bomb [and] agreed that the surprise bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are morally indefensible," the 21 churchmen argued that the U.S. should...
...Mercury cause is right down Airforceman McCrary's alley: "Sink the Navy." An air-power zealot, he won a public-relations victory for the A.A.F. with his "flying circus" that sped correspondents into Shanghai before the surrender, into Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the wake of the atomic bombs...