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Congratulations on your article "Yankee Scientist." Surely the leaders of this country should realize the need for fostering the development of science as a weapon of war and a bulwark against chaos in the peace to come...
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Youngsters are the brains and guts of the nation's war-research program. In some of the most vital new technologies, such as electronics, they are the whole show; one eminent scientist observed that "no man older than 35 can have a really fundamental grasp of electronics." Some typical cases...
Many a U.S. scientist last week grimly contrasted U.S. draft policy with those of Britain, Russia and Germany, which have taken care to keep their scientists where they can be most useful - in the laboratories. The heedless drafting of scientists, said they, would not only put a crimp in the U.S. war effort but place the nation at a serious disadvantage in postwar technology...
...Thousand Ejected Ministers. Guests were surprised when the child entertained them with discussions of "such matters as the Test and the Corporation Acts, or the interpretation of a point in Scripture:" At the age of 13, Hazlitt published a passionate defense of the Reverend Joseph Priestley, radical and scientist. But his zeal for religion faltered; young Hazlitt decided to become a painter. Art proved tumultuous. When his canvases displeased him - as they often did - Hazlitt slashed them to pieces in fits of rage. Nice girls also displeased Hazlitt. When Charles Lamb introduced Hazlitt to a group of them, the essayist...