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...Joliot-Curie, daughter of famed Physicist Marie Curie, is a distinguished nuclear physicist in her own right, a Nobel prizewinner and the wife of a Communist. Like her husband, Frederic, she is also a member of France's Atomic Research Commission. Late one afternoon last week, Mme. Curie stepped off an Air France plane at La Guardia Field. Waiting to meet her was Dr. Edward Barsky, chairman of the Communist-front Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, under whose auspices Mme. Curie was to lecture...
...more difficult news problem. Knowledge in the soth Century-while enormously greater than ever before-is very unevenly distributed. Specialists are not confined to the faculty of a university; they are found among members of the same household. Various publications address themselves to specialists: one speaks to the physicist, another to his wife (who can't do long division), another to their son who is absorbed in music, another to their neighbor whose consuming interest is politics. But all these individuals have to pull their weight in the same civilization...
...this common meeting ground stands 20th Century journalism's great responsibility. Journalism has to talk to the physicist, his wife, his musician son and his political neighbor all at once. In its way and its world, journalism has to do as good a job as the women chattering at the well...
Professor Einstein does not say that the book is clear, or well-written, or lucid. It is not. The book is the work of a Scottish physicist, Lancelot Whyte, 51, who was chairman and managing director of Power Jets, Ltd. from 1936 to 1941. With Frank Whittle, inventor of gas turbine jet propulsion, he shared in the development of jet propulsion. Whyte is a scientist who believes that science has a social duty to perform...
...constructive periods of history, writes Physicist Whyte, "the dominance of one general tendency ensured the spontaneous cooperation of countless individuals, most of whom were unaware of the broader significance of their actions. They unquestioningly accepted their part in the expansion of empire, the spreading of religion, or the development of science and industry." But with the exhaustion of the European tradition, those who had the deepest sense of it were paralyzed by its decay. "Genius felt itself frustrated, and failed to guide. . . . Europe passed into the hands of those who had deliberately renounced the influence of the old tradition...