The Press: Super Sight

Off Bikini last week, New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Stephen White saw "an explosion so fantastic, so mighty and so beyond belief that men's emotions burst from their throats in wild shouts. . . ." It was beyond description, but he did not want his paper to be beyond describing it. On the end of his dispatch, he tacked a beseeching note to his editor: "Don't take any superlatives out of my copy. This was SOMETHING."

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