I am told the energy of one of the early atomic bombs is about equal to the energy that falls on a mile and a half square of the earth in a single day.
I am told that a bishop in Philadelphia ordered two motion-picture houses to close down their shows.
I am told that common goldfish will survive under winter ice while the fancy sorts will not.
I am told the kurbash is a whip.
I am told that Soviet fighter planes are buzzing our airlift.
I am told that Paris is unchanged this summer.
I am told that a committee is being formed to censor as un-American all books which, in its opinion, are sacrilegious or immoral.
I am told that no creature can travel faster than a hundred and twenty-five miles an hour, or thereabouts.
I am told that Truman reads Keats.
These are things I had not known before.