Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shelley Mydans' admirers, none tops the hard-bitten G.I. editor of the Mid-pacifican, who wrote, on Dec. 2, 1944: "Shelley Smith Mydans, the Pacific's first gorgeous war correspondent, is here. . . . (She) cannot be summed up in a sentence, but a sentence can report that she's an able newspaperwoman who has been more places than a globetrotter, has had more adventures than a soldier of fortune, knows more about the Japs than most military commanders, and, at 29, is better to look at than 75% of the movie stars...
...light of the past, the significant fact about 1945 was that it was the last year of World War II. But in the light of the future, it was the first year in which civilization possessed, in the sober words of the Smyth Report, "the means to commit suicide at will...
...magnetic warheads), sit back and wait for the explosions. There were still unanswered questions: more than 800 of the Indy's crew had got off the ship-why had there been no search planes for four days? Who on the Leyte, communications staff had bungled in failing to report the ship overdue...
...relative of uranium, thorium is another radioactive, heavy element (atomic number 90, atomic weight 232.12) that disintegrates into lower-weight elements and eventually becomes lead. Of the three standard radioactive progressions - uranium-radium, actinium and thorium-those of uranium and thorium are the most alike. According to the Smyth report, thorium was considered as a basic source of atomic power, but uranium was chosen instead...
Censorship was still news-and still impeding the news. In the U.S. the Office of Censorship was all gone but the archives; nobody was happier to see it go, insisted Director Byron Price, than he. Last week in his final report to Harry Truman, precise, silver-haired, ex-A.P.-man Price made two cogent points: 1) any wartime censorship must "hold to the single purpose" of keeping dangerous information from the enemy; 2) "no one who does not dislike censorship should ever be permitted to exercise censorship...