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...Oppenheimer halfheartedly supported the Administration's May-Johnson bill, but insisted that its concept of total control should not be the "pattern for the future." Some enforced secrecy was obviously necessary, he said. But he added: "The gossip of scientists who get together and chew the rag is the lifeblood of physics...
...Superman is the leader of a swarm of satellites separated from him only by a copyright. Scores of comic books feature similar characters-for example, Catman, Bullet Man, The Human Torch, Captain Midnight, Captain Marvel, Black Terror, Blue Beetle, Green Lama, Yankee Boy, Bogey Man-which follow the Superman pattern of a 'hero' who overcomes all obstacles with machine-like precision. Often, victory comes from frankly preternatural powers . . . propulsion and X-ray vision: these heroes' bull necks are often a pretty fair index of their intellectual prowess...
...usual vaudevillian pattern of brief appearances by a large number of well-known Paramount characters is followed to the letter. While it obviously isn't art, it is undeniably good, or at least varied, entertainment. There are, in fact, several numbers which go over very well, particularly a humorous biography of Crooner Crosby, narrated quite cynically by Bob Benchley to Crosby's four equally cynical sons...
...failed to find a map, but he unearthed a 17th-Century Italian book beneath the floor of a deserted shack. Just to have it appraised, he took it to Harriet Swift of the Boston Public Library. She turned the leaves, noticed a pattern of pinholes on page 101. The holes pierced letters, formed a simple code message. Its exciting intelligence: the King of Calf Island had buried a treasure on Strong Island, off the shore of Cape...
...During the war, for military reasons, it was necessary [for Canada] to acquiesce in the operation of wartime arrangements under which responsibility for major decisions on the direction of the Allied war effort was concentrated in a very few hands. . . . The wartime pattern [must not be] perpetuated...