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...life: "You could not know Bob Hallowell without realizing the terrible human importance of the revolution. ... It means the release of human capacities that cannot function in the world we have now." Shocked and reminded, other devoted old friends such as Robert Benchley, Bruce Bliven, Walter Lippmann and Stark Young, sponsored an exhibition this week at the Reinhardt Galleries...
...world-weary alumni were sipping their cool mint juleps in the Stork Club the other day, trying to forget an earth where every conceivable mystery is suspected of undermining civilization, and is therefore being duly investigated by Dies et al. Suddenly they recognized the presence of a sordid and stark reality. In the conversation of two of the season's buds at the next table, they learned of an all-pervading influence of another color...
...American reaction to this article, written by Dr. J. Stark, was a manifesto signed by 1,284 scientists, calling upon their colleagues to participate actively in the defense of democracy "to the end that there shall never be an un-American physics...
When Judge Southern's turn came again, Governor Stark's demand for a Kansas City Dewey was still dangling. Attorney General McKittrick had conferred with Kansas City's Prosecutor W. W. Graves, a tame Pendergast cat, who announced that there was nothing to investigate. Judge Southern suddenly issued search warrants, sent police out raiding...
Meanwhile, the Hahn report must have brought commingled pleasure and discomfiture to his colleague, crusty old Physicist Johannes Stark, who heads the Reich Physical-Technical Institute. Johannes Stark whoops up the Nazi idea that physical experiment is better than theory, regards theory as "Jewish" in spirit. Hahn's high-voltage explosion was produced by experiment, but accidentally; and it could never have been evaluated or even recognized without the help of theory...