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...Said Scientist Julian, whose home in suburban Oak Park has twice been vandalized since he bought it a year ago: "It appears to me that organizations like the Union League Club are as directly responsible as any other agency for such un-American incidents as the bombing of my home and the Cicero riot. When individuals in high places behave as the Union League Club behaves, ordinary citizens follow suit...
...armed paper hanger in action, a man fighting a bear, another wrestling an alligator, a boxer fighting a wrestler, a 600-lb. cowboy mounted on a luckless nag, a close-up of a lady swallowing swords, a swallower of goldfish, a Hopi Indian rain dance complete with rattlesnake, a scientist who showed (with the help of liquid air at 300° F. below zero) what the world might be like if the sun went out. For last week's show, one "Cannonball" Martin came out of retirement to be pounded before the cameras with sledge hammers...
Sarnoff is no scientist, yet of all RCA's activities, research is nearest his heart and he is one of the few top men of the industry who can talk to scientists without an interpreter. And research represents tomorrow, expansion, new success which David Sarnoff, after the painful insecurity of his early life, still seeks...
Thor Heyerdahl was a determined scientist with a theory. It was his belief that a resolute young man, by rafting across the Pacific, could earn enough money to retire for life. "Kon-Tiki"--which has grossed him an estimated four million--has proven Heyerdahl's point, and it's also a darn good movie...
...test data remained secret. The Navy would only say that Pilot Bridgeman had climbed higher and flown faster than any mortal. But he had done it as a scientist, busy watching his instruments, recording information for later study. There had been no time for even a glance at the sky, and Bridgeman had only one tantalizing comment on his high, wild ride: in the first few seconds of rocket flight, he said, "you feel like you're going right on out of this world...