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...Lewis Strauss, Joe I meant just one thing: the U.S. must get to work, on a "crash" basis, on building the "super." The super's vast explosive potentialities were based not on splitting atoms (as with the fission, or A-bomb), but in fusing atoms of one element to form another (e.g., hydrogen into helium) through in tense heat. AEC Physicist Edward Teller figured out in 1945 that a superbomb was theoretically possible. In 1947 he came within one step of working out the theoretical mechanics (at a seminar in Los Alamos attended by Dr. Klaus Fuchs...
Composer Tiomkin, who speaks fractured English splinted with a Russian accent, explains: "Hollywood begin to come to song mostly from matter of exploitation . . . When I make the title tune for High Noon, I think song help make continuity, musical dissolves, time element ... I thinking this picture a little bit too static. Music give feeling of action. I get inspiration from American bandit songs from Carl Sandburg's American Song Bag." The tune, with Lyricist Ned Washington's help, soon became a jukebox favorite, has sold almost 2,000,000 records. Tiomkin has already earned more in royalties than...
...Forest, famed "father of radio" (because of his 1906 invention of the three-element vacuum tube), and still active in his own laboratory, got a cake and a kiss from his third wife, Marie, at an 80th-birthday party in Hollywood...
...Gigi, a sophisticated Gallic story of a 16-year-old French tomboy who dreams of bourgeois marriage while her female relatives train her to become a rich man's mistress. Next day the New York Times's Critic Brooks Atkinson wrote: "Miss Hepburn is the one fresh element in the performance. She is an actress; and, as Gigi, she develops a full-length character from artless gaucheries in the first act to a stirring emotional climax in the last scene. [She] is spontaneous, lucid and captivating." The rest of the New York critics heartily agreed. Paramount Pictures...
Despite the family squabble, Pleasants is certain that "Catholicism and science were meant for each other. In the church we find the feminine element of life in its perfection . . . Yet the church as a human institution suffers the temptations of its state, les défauts de ses qualités: the temptation to timidity, the temptation to rank custom above life and obedience above prudence. Modern science is a masculine element, inquisitive, daring, critical, willing to try the new, yet careless of holding fast to what is good in the old, lacking often in reverence for human nature...