29 JULY 1949, Page 14

Antics and Atoms

The indubitable oddity of the. week was reserved for television. Dr. Daniel Q. Posin, of U.S.A., gave a talk on the working of the atomic bomb. Seeing that, by way of illustration, Dr. Posin clicked his teeth, clucked his tongue, chirruped, bounced and wiggled his fingers, it was not so much a talk as an adagio turn. For sheer verve and vitality it was unsurpassed ; and I cordially recommend our home-grown scientists to study Dr. Posin's animal noises (or, in the circumstances, animal-mineral-vegetable noises) by way of aids to exposition.