Word: nemo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgian ship Scaldis was due to sail from Antwerp last week. The important cargo was the "bathyscaphe" designed by Professor Auguste ("Captain Nemo") Piccard, 64, of balloon fame.* In the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa, the bathyscaphe will be lowered overboard with the professor and his coadventurer, Professor Max Cosyns, inside. Piccard expects to descend to a depth of 2½ miles...
Most radio weather news is read directly from the teletype in brief, dry spells at intervals throughout the day. But not the nightly (11:25 p.m.) comments of WOR's Nemo.* Nemo reads the U.S. Weather Bureau prediction, then follows it with a scientifically sound but slightly rhapsodic analysis of his own. By last week he had attracted thousands of enthusiastic listeners...
...voice of Nemo belongs to a studio announcer (Phil Tonken), but the words come from 68-year-old Charles S. Partridge, who is a prophet by avocation. Partridge is a bashful, thermometer-straight, sparse-haired little old gentleman who makes his living as a copyreader for the Wall Street Journal. Ever since he was a boy in Selma, Ala., Partridge has had a countryman's healthy interest in the weather. About 25 years ago he decided to get a scientific background. For five years he visited the Weather Bureau every day, and read hundreds of meteorology books...
...large, Nemo is an optimist: a heavy flood will bring forth a dissertation on the raindrop ("a masterpiece of jewel-like workmanship"), and "green sky is a double delight . . . beautiful to look upon and always suggesting fair weather." Even the Big Snow of '47 left him undismayed. After it was all over, he found it "fair, COLD, SPARKLING, STIMULATING, PERFECT! Dazzling white snow, sky of blue...
...Waugh found, the comics were steeped in an atmosphere of "toughness, of the harsh life of bums and thugs." Once publishers got the idea that comics might attract millions of child readers, the strips were scrubbed up. Replacing the often cruel Yellow Kid were sweet Buster Brown, dreamy Little Nemo, merry Little Jimmy. The Katzenjammer Kids were mean moppets, but in their rebellion against grown-up conventions they were on the children's side. As the long-suffering Inspector said: "Mit dose kids, society...