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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Says Fry: "What I am trying to say is that life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the .first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be. In my plays I want to look at life-at the commonplaces of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time...
Monkey Business. Why are the galaxies receding? Some cosmologists have suggested an enormous explosion that blew all the matter in the universe away from a common center. The chief thing wrong with this theory is that the galaxies are moving too fast; simple calculations show that^ they would have had to start their motion at a point so close in time that the whole universe would turn out to be younger than such minor parts as the stars and the earth...
Cheers & Tuts. For years the theories of the Cambridge men were published piecemeal in the solemn little papers through which cosmologists communicate. They made very little stir. For one thing, English universities shy away from publicity, and Hoyle and Lyttleton were young...
Last week from RCA's President Frank Folsom came a blistering refusal: "Your request cannot be regarded as ... in accordance with the well-established American principles of free competition and fair play. If this kind of thing goes on in America, the Phillies certainly missed a bet in the last World Series. They should have asked the Yanks for Joe DiMaggio . . Nothing, not even our tri-color tube can remedy the basic defect of the system you adopted, namely, its total inability to receive any picture whatsoever on the 9,000,000 sets outstanding . . . today." t With that...
...trying to cover the Chinese Communist invasion of Tibet, 15 foreign and 200 Indian correspondents in New Delhi faced bigger obstacles than Tibet's snow-capped mountains. For one thing, Tibet would let no foreign newsmen in. For another, no news was coming out: the last radio link with Tibet's capital was cut two weeks ago when the wireless operated by India's mission in Lhasa went silent...