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High-level Washington hummed with the rumor that the U.S. had picked up new aerial samples of a second Russian superbomb explosion-a blast which, said the rumor, indicated that the Soviet Union may well have found a short cut to a superbomb that is smaller and more easily delivered...
Grandma's next show was held at Gimbels department store, which invited her down for the opening. Grandma had not been in Manhattan for years; she later described her visit: "Oh, it was shake hands, shake, shake, shake-and I wouldn't even know the people now. My...
Last week Hibben got some strong support. At his request, University of Michigan scientists had put the tusk fragments through their new radioactive carbon dating apparatus. This machinery, with the help of a Geiger counter, samples the amount of Carbon 14 in the tested material, assessing its age by the...
Columnist Paddleford. who can smell a food story behind any big news, toured England at coronation time ("Fluids are hissing, greases are sputtering . . . foods are en masse, the raw and the cooked awaiting the administering hands of the experts"), traveled to Fulton, Mo. in 1946 to hear Churchill's...
The Chicago Tribune, whose daily circulation has slipped about 20% in the last seven years from 1,076,045 in 1946 to 885,840 this year, decided to try an old circulation stunt to boost its sales. The plan was to give away free dolls for every three new subscriptions...