The quarantine method for handling bigots implies more than giving them the silent treatment. Prof. Fineberg urges the community-relations organizations to scrutinize the nefarious activities of hate-mongers and to be prepared to furnish information about them to amicable inquirers. When a rabble-rouser is coming, those organizations should privately expose him to opinion-molders. In addition, constructive …
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The Infamous Attact
The cofee cups suddenly went spinning as an explosion knocked Dorie Miller flat on his back. Jumping up from his supine position, the powerfully-built Negro mess man from Waco, Texas headed for the deck. Everywhere that Dorie looked he saw smoke and mammoth warships lying on their sides. Overheated dozens of Japanese dive bombers controlled …
Sunday Morning at Pearl Harbor
At breakfast time on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, Dorie Miller was serving coffee aboard the battleship West Virginia. Dorie was a Negro, and the highest job to which he could then aspire in the U.S Navy was that of messman. While Dorrie was technically a member of a great flight fleet, he was not …
The Italian Navigator Lands
The curtain reaction took place precisely as Enrico Fermi had surmised. After twenty-eight minutes he curtailed that the experiment, giving the signal to replace the control rod. The normally reserved scientists, unable to repress their excitement, let out a tremendous cheer and gathered around Fermi to shake his hand. Although it was time to celebrate, …
The Squash Court Experiment
As the pile grew, so did the entire project. Fermi moved his materials to an abandoned squash court under the football stadium at the University of Chicago. His paced accelerated because they were proceeding on the premise that the Germans were close to atomic success. Six weeks after the pile had been started, its critical …
The Ultimate Weapon Takes Shape
Enrico Fermi designed a device which could eventuate in a chain reaction. It consisted of layer of graphite, alternated with chunk of uranium. The uranium emitted neutrons, and the graphite slowed them down. Holes were left for long cadmium safety rods. By withdrawing those control rods Fermi could speed up the production of neutrons, thus …
A Visit to the President
In the winter of 1941, Enrico Fermi and a number of other distinguished scientists importuned President Franklin Roosevelt for authorization to begin all-out effort in atomic energy research. The scientists were alarmed by incontrovertible evidence of surreptitious German experiments, and they asked for speedy approval. Italian-born Enrico Fermi was the ideal man to lead the …
Irony for Merryweather
At last, Monte’s chance to perform came. He had played the timorous Tin Man in a truncated version of “The Wizard of Oz” which the apprentices had staged. But now there was an open audition to cast the final show of the season. It was to be a jaunty original comedy, given a summer try …
An All-Round Man
The need for a decision came about when Monte was invited to join a prestigious summer stock company, starting in mid June. As a mature “apprentice,” he would be required to take tickets, paint scenary, prepare placards, assist with lighting, costumes, and props, and carry an occasional spear in a walk-on role. Since the company …
Off Broadway
When Monte Ziltch told his boss, Mr. Foy, that he was quitting as an accountant to become an actor, the man was convulse with laughter. After Mr. Foy realized that Monte was obsessed with the idea, he became quite serious, launching a diatribe on the importance of responsibility in the younger generation. Monte confessed that …