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...role of the scientist in society has changed drastically, Conant claimed. Far from being in the "long hair" sphere while the inventor is the public idol, the scientist of the 1950's is at once theorist and inventor, in that the public expects of him the miracles it once expected from an Edison...
...which Russia yearns to coexist are a bunch of bloodthirsty plague spreaders. Even though the sessions were attended by the standard Red cheerleaders, the show proved something of a flop. At a three-hour press conference, France's Joliot-Curie, who once had some stature as an honest scientist, showed "documentary" films of germ warfare from Korea and China. When reporters asked such questions as "How many killed?" the answer was: "Secret information...
...situation that is improbable but possible, yet "not wholly fantastic." Last week Ealing's latest, The Man in the White Suit (see below), was being greeted with whoops of laughter by audiences in Manhattan. True to formula, the story is improbable but possible (it revolves around a scientist who invents an indestructible fabric), and it proved once again that Ealing's methods-at least by Hollywood's standards-are nearly as fantastic as the picture's plot...
...nondocumentary portions of an otherwise plodding British-made film involve a chase by a police inspector and a scientist after the latter's wife and assistant, who have escaped with secret parts of his electronic invention. Just in time for the fadeout, the fugitives are conveniently buried in an avalanche. This leaves the scientist free to pursue his invention-as well as a beautiful Lapp girl, who has been getting warm glances from him during the trek over the frozen tundra...
Shapley has never before taught an undergraduate class at Harvard. When he does the student body will get the chance to meet a man who is not alone a distinguished scientist, but an outstand-humanitarian as well. He will teach an upper level General Education course called Cosmography, the science which teaches the relation of the whole order of nature...