Word: think
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking aim all the way from San Francisco, touring Soprano Lily Pons let fly: "New York City is a crowded, dirty madhouse." French-born Lily also knocked Paris fashions. "Zut," she sputtered, "first they are too long, now they are too short. I think the American women wear them best. Me, I'm too petite, always in the middle...
...liked the cover by Artist Hubert Rogers, applauded top Science Fictioneer Robert A. Heinlein for his serial "Gulf" and A. E. van Vogt for his short story "Final Command." As the magazine's readers are used to adventures in time & space, Editor John W. Campbell Jr. did not think Reader Hoen soft-witted. He printed Hoen's letter in the November 1948 issue with the comment: "Hm-m-m-he must be off on another time track." But he also thought Hoen was on the track of a thoughtful, balanced plan for a good issue of Astounding Science...
...with amateurs in neighboring states. To his friends on the air, Bill was just another ham; he never admitted that he was a prisoner. For Bill, chatting casually in the complicated lingo of radio hamdom, it was almost like being on the outside again. In fact, he began to think, he might even get help over the radio in a plea for parole...
Astronomers used to think that only good-sized meteorites reach the earth intact, while the smaller ones "burn" to vapor on passing through the atmosphere. But Dr. H. E. Landsberg at the U.S. Weather Bureau had another idea. He smeared some microscope slides with glycerin and exposed them on a mountaintop just before a shower of "Giacobinid" meteors* was expected. Before and during the shower, he caught nothing unusual. But for many days after the shower he caught highly magnetic particles unlike anything found in normal dust-catches...
...what is good and what is bad for all of us ... Government decides what is and what is not restraint of trade for business, but very carefully avoids deciding what is or what is not restraint of trade when applied to labor unions and other political blocs. "Do not think that the use of this power is only sought by bureaucrats, or by those who would travel the last mile to socialism. When Averell Harriman was Secretary of Commerce he told me that I would be amazed at the number of so-called rugged industrialists, business leaders, who trooped...