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...after watching a roomful of the most critical, cynical and sophisticated males in town, hard-bitten journalists, act like adolescents. Even those who had come to sneer were hanging on her words like impressionable schoolboys and laughing at her wit before she had completed a sentence." Glowed the Daily Mirror: "Marilyn Monroe, the sleek, the pink and the beautiful, captured Britain...
Anti-Matter. With the antiproton found, scientists assume that "antimatter" is possible-a symmetrical "mirror image" with all the outward characteristics of ordinary matter but with its electrical charges reversed. Obviously, antimatter could not exist within reach of ordinary matter as it exists on earth. But it may even be common in other parts of the universe. Some of the distant galaxies may be made of such reversed matter. The light from a star of antimatter, says Professor Frisch, would be just like the light from normal stars...
Snap Judgment. In St. Louis, Edwin Balk was fined $500 after his barber testified in court: "He asked for a short haircut, and that's what I gave him. After I got through, he looked in the mirror and yelled, 'You've cut off my sideburns,' then jumped out of the chair, threw the apron m my face and twisted my arm round until it broke...
Manhattan's other major morning papers, the Herald, Tribune and Hearst's Daily Mirror, picked up the story. As clamoring rewrite men and reporters called Nassau County headquarters to check their tips, they were, asked by police to hold up the story until after the ransom deadline next day, in hope the kidnaper would collect the ransom and return the baby...
Next day he took it back. The bishop's statement "was intended as an exhortation, not as a command," said a spokesman. But the secular press saw its chance, and pounced: "How smug," exploded the Daily Mirror, "and how stupid." Editorialized the Daily Sketch: "Once again the Church of England has spoken with two voices." And the Evening Standard: "The new Bishop of London has made an unfortunate start in his high and important office." The" established Church of England quietly buttoned up its gaiters and waited for things to quiet down...