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Individuals are the best source. The scientist who makes a wild statement, the undergraduate who perpetrates a nocturnal prank, the individual sports star--all these are unofficial sources, and make the best reading. And the most important idea that Harvard represents is illustrated by this--freedom of the individual to rise or fall on his own responsibility. Therefore the picture of Harvard formed by the reading public is, Pinkerton says, mainly formed by the "accidents and impulses of individuals...
...Washington last week, that eminent scientist, Dr. Vannevar Bush, was called to the telephone by a reporter who wanted guidance on what the new Russian atomic-bomb explosion meant. "I'm listening to the World Series, as you should be," retorted the doctor hurriedly. He added, politely: "Giants ahead, six to nothing," and hung up. Once more the U.S. celebrated the seven days of the long lunch hour, the surreptitious telephone call, the quick office bet, and-to feverish New Yorkers-of the hunt for the ducat, the pasteboard, the seat at the game. BASEBALL FEVER, the sports pages...
...lowbrow Light Programme. But this small minority can tune in on the best brains, the best music and the best drama Britain can produce. Not all of the Third's intellectual caviar is equally palatable: it ranges from odd items like "An Ecologist among the Hopi" to Scientist Fred Hoyle's exciting series of lectures on the universe, which proved so popular that they were rebroadcast on the Home...
...filled in as the Democrats' mayor of New York (1932-33) when Jimmy Walker quit under pressure; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. The prototype of Novelist Joel Sayre's political satire, Hizzoner the Mayor, O'Brien kept his constituents constantly amused with his malaprop oratory (Sample: "That scientist of scientists, Albert Weinstein"), cooperated with pressagents by accepting such titles as "Ole-Bo-Lon, the Scentless Chrysanthemum" from a Chinese restaurant, habitually referred to New York as "this great metropolis city." So loyal was he to Tammany that when reporters once asked if he had picked a new police...
...escape touches off a vast monster-hunt, demonstrating the earthlings' frightening capacity for panic, ignorance, unreasoning hostility and pygmy-minded self-seeking. He finally accomplishes his mission, thanks to a young war widow (Patricia Neal), her eleven-year-old son (Billy Gray) and the earth's leading scientist, well played by Sam Jaffe with an Einstein hairdo...