Robert Anderson, the first person narrator of Poul Anderson's There Will Be Time, summarizes 1951 for us and I will post more on this when I have finished running around Lancaster on other business.
Truman was President. Also in the news were:
Alger Hiss;
Owen Lattimore;
Judith Coplon;
Morton Sobell;
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg;
Joseph McCarthy.
The Korean War was happening. The Russians had got the atomic bomb. Television was an innovation. A millionaire might finance space flight in the next century. Computers were few, large and expensive with blinking lights. There was smog in LA and sometimes in London.
Happier days?
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Yes, George VI was still alive in 1951, but he was in failing health and would soon die early in 1952.
And I remember Algis Hiss too well with anger and contempt. He was as much a traitor as Kim Philby!
And a real millionaire, Elon Musk, is trying hard, using his own money, to get a REAL space program going! I ardently hope he succeeds.
Sean
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