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...more the physicists learn, the less they are sure of. Last week a glittering tribe of top-rank physicists met at Princeton as part of the University's bicentennial celebration. Conference high points: addresses by Nobel Prizewinners Paul A. M. Dirac, of Britain, and Denmark's Niels Bohr, both of whom stressed the scientist's extraordinary difficulty in describing the simplest things...
...full member of the potent Politburo. In 1930 Stalin made him premier of the U.S.S.R., a job he held through the decade of the Soviet Union's greatest growth. The approach of war turned the Kremlin's main attention from domestic to foreign affairs. None of the top-rank surviving Old Bolsheviks had specialized in foreign relations. Ex-Mensheviks Vishinsky, Maisky, Surits were not wholly trusted. So Molotov in 1939 was made Foreign Minister...
Stalin's speech contained no threats. It was dry in tone, defensive in content. But its truculent exaggeration of the danger of attack from the capitalist world was the most warlike pronouncement uttered by any top-rank statesman since V-J Day. The world Communist line, "soft" during the war, has been gradually hardening into a return to the tactics and slogans of world revolution. Comrades everywhere could be expected to take a tip from Uncle Joe's speech and sharpen their opposition to non-Communist governments...
Last week the latest listener-polls, as they have for years, put Crosby among the dozen most popular attractions in radio. The entertainment trade-sheet, Variety, considered him front page news. He had been a top-rank songster since the season of 1930-31, when a current pop tune was Crosby, Columbo and Vallee. Other singers have come and gone. Last week Crosby, 41, had never even been away...
...first top-rank officer of World War II to go to Congress became a Senator last week. With no more ceremony than a noonday oath and handshaking all around, the Senate welcomed Admiral Thomas C. Hart, appointed by Connecticut's Governor to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Francis Maloney (TIME, Feb. 12). High-collared, 67-year-old Tommy Hart became the occupant of the 40th Republican seat in the upper house, the first U.S. admiral ever to sit in the U.S. Senate...