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...Lionel Heald, representing the Crown, opened the proceedings by citing Nevil Shute's novel, No Highway, in which the scientist hero predicts that an airliner will crash because of "metal fatigue."* It was this same metal fatigue, said Sir Lionel, that destroyed the Comets...
...public has been taught to think of him [the scientist] as a mental colossus and a moral paragon-austere, dedicated and all but beyond human vanities in his pursuit of the truth . . . To this assumption of the scientist's moral superiority there has suddenly been added the social pre-eminence a society accords its workers of magic...
...radio announcer. In his spare time he made scores of speeches to Mormon church gatherings and civic groups. The story, as it evolved after hundreds of repetitions, was that he had been assigned to the OSS, parachuted behind German lines with 29 other men and kidnaped a German atomic scientist named Otto Hahn. Every other member of the mission, Stringfellow said, was later killed. He said that he was captured and tortured, then escaped to France, where he was crippled by a land mine...
...operation the first nuclear reactor, thus became the Prometheus of the Atomic Age. These distinctions should be enough, but this week Fermi could claim still another: his wife is one of the most engaging biographers who ever described the private life of a great scientist...
Meanwhile, out in the cold reaches of outer space, a band of interstellar cavemen were put to flight just as they were about to burn alive Vena, the beautiful navigator for Rocky Jones, Space Ranger; a bearded, mad scientist was certain to be thwarted by right-thinking Captain Video who, as the press release puts it, is an unbeatable "combination of Einstein, King Arthur and Marco Polo," and Space Patrol's Commander Buzz Corry was zooming through the cosmos intent on reforming the almost limitless supply of villains with his soul-washing Brain-O-Graph...