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...Shock-haired, 45-year-old Sam Allison, director of the new Institute of Nuclear Studies, said that the Manhattan Project had ruined him by turning him from a good research worker into a bureaucrat. Said he: "Scientists want to publish their work so that it will do the most good for mankind. The Army wants to pay us to produce things, and keep quiet...
Last week the average citizen picked up his newspaper and got a breath-taking shock. His President told him that the U.S. no longer had plenty. The citizen and his wife read the sudden, almost incredible news...
...Travail. That Mikolajczyk and the Western democracy he represents have survived the shock of war and revolution is another testimonial to Poland's national stamina. Once Poland was the mightiest nation of eastern Europe. Jan Karol Chodkiewicz's fearsome Winged Hussars (see cut) defeated the Turks at Chocim in 1621, and 62 years later Jan Sobieski beat them back from Vienna. The Polish military tradition still burns bright; World War II's Warsaw and Monte Cassino will be remembered. And yet, as Poland under her conquerors has gone from disaster to disaster, the tradition of struggle...
...Shock on Shock. In the last two years, the empire has survived the shock of Edsel's death and Old Henry's retirement. There is no reason to suppose that it will not also survive the financial shock of the day when death comes to Old Henry Ford. The inheritance taxes on his 58% holdings of Ford stock would be enormous -if they were paid. But they will probably be minimized in the same way as the taxes on Edsel's 42% interest...
Versatile Actress McGuire (Claudia, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) plays the mute girl to a fare-you-well, finally managing to stammer some words into an antique wall telephone after the shock of seeing the last of a series of murders. However improbable such a recovery may be in a medical sense, it makes excellent cinema sense. So do a dozen other scenes in the picture...