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...friends, who treated him as a tame prophet and his studio as a shrine, looked askance at bouncy Ellen, and when Watts' child-wife danced in on a dinner party dressed in pink tights, it was decided that she must go. Her later fame came as a faint shock to Watts...
...makes a hobby of collecting earthquakes, revealed that the atomic bomb added something new to seismology that has heretofore been missing in ordinary earth rumblings. "Until the bomb observations," Leet explained, we were more or less working in the dark on one particular type of earthquake: the direct vertical shock...
...there had been a fine show of high-minded cooperation between the services. But no one doubted that the emotional explosion would come after the atomic shock waves had died away. Said the Navy's No. 1 ordnance man, Vice Admiral W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, chairman of the planning committee: "I have no illusions; there will be controversy later...
General Motors strike leaders showed no sign of losing heart: at a workers' rally they talked of "shock troops," "panzer divisions," "the biggest pillbox." Other strikes were threatened in the nationwide Bell Telephone System, in New York City Western Union offices...
...enterprising Manhattan dealer this week opened a show that was likely to shock two kinds of people: 1) Christians, 2) lovers of the beautiful. An exhibition of modern religious painting, it was un likely to win any converts to religion-or to modern art, either. Samples...