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...fact was that astonished young (28) Concertmaster Alfred Bruening caught a flying baton in the face. The mystery: Did the baton just slip out of Halasz's hand, as Halasz claimed, or did he hurl it, straight and true as a javelin, as the outraged concertmaster afterward charged...
...editors, the recent issue of Cosmopolitan contains one of the most explosive documents ever published. Major General Charles Willoughby wrote the article and directed it against newspapermen who criticized General MacArthur's Yalu River campaign last fall. But in blasting "the ragpickers of modern journalism" General Willoughby lets slip some interesting revelations about his own management of military intelligence...
...nearly all nuclear physicists know atomic secrets of some sort and therefore must keep their mouths shut for fear of an unintentional slip. Because he is bound by no security rules, Physicist Hans Thirring of Austria may speculate freely about atomic weapons on the basis of what is known to all the world's physicists. In the latest issue of Britain's Discovery, Dr. Thirring discusses the possibilities of radiological warfare, an old favorite of his (TIME...
Director Robert Sinclair has succeeded in making the story move at a good pace most of the time, but he allows the comedy to slip into slapstick in several scenes. The set of a Greenwich Village apartment seems to be a little too cluttered; several times the actors found themselves bumping into furniture...
...Charlie Schwab, Carnegie's right-hand man, Morgan learned that Carnegie, anxious to retire and devote his life to giving away his millions, might be in a mood to sell. "If Andy is willing," said Morgan, "go and find out his price." Soon Schwab came back with a slip on which Carnegie had scribbled the figure: $400 million. Merely glancing at it, Morgan said: "I accept." On Feb. 25, 1901, Morgan assembled Carnegie Steel and all the other companies into U.S. Steel-and floated $1,400,000,000 in capital, half of it in common stock. As newspapers observed...