World's End

The Nation (circ. 35,889), which usually takes itself and the world with knit-browed gravity, took a lighter view last week of the current "apocalyptic writing." If the bomb destroys the world, wrote Associate Editor Robert Bendiner, "everyone will be prepared with the proper ironic comment." But if the end comes from a "brush with a ... comet, we'll all be caught flatfooted . . . Habits being what they are, the press of the Day Before will handle the approaching calamity as follows:

New York Times

END OF WORLD FORESEEN IN 24 HOURS STOCK PRICES TUMBLE TO RECORD Lows

New York Journal-American F.D.R. PLANNED WORLD'S END AT YALTA

SENSATIONAL STORY OF AN Ex-FBI AGENT

New York Daily News

BIG BANG TOMORROW SERIES OFF--NO WORLD

New York Post

STARTING TODAY: "WILL YOUR DAUGHTER BE SAFE IN GEHENNA?" A TIMELY EXPOSE Or LECHERY IN LIMBO

Daily Worker

CAPITALIST WORLD DOOMED U.S.S.R. To TRIM FIVE-YEAR PLAN

Variety

NO FIX BEYOND STYX

Chicago Tribune

WORLD TO BLOW UP!

VOTERS HAIL END OF DEMOCRATIC MISRULE;

MCCORMICK BOMB SHELTER FACES TEST

The Nation

BY THE TIME THIS ISSUE REACHES our readers they will no doubt have changed their addresses--for the better, we hope. In the excitement that . . . will accompany the destruction of our planet, there will be a strong tendency to overlook the cause of the catastrophe and a failure to fix responsibility . . . Until we have a thorough investigation, voters are bound to wonder . . . Was it collision or collusion?

Time

As it must to all, death comes tomorrow to tired, harried, war-haunted Mother Earth. Sixth in size of the solar system's nine whirling satellites, fourth in distance from the sun,* Earth alone has Man, was from the start haijed as planet most likely to fail . . ."

* Writer Bendiner's TIME erred. Earth is actually third in distance from the sun.

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