Fire in the Bradbury Building, downtown LA, 1947

He was demobbed in 1947, and joined the Gaumont British animation studio, alongside future comics artists Mike Western and Eric Bradbury.

Dark Carnival is a short story collection, the debut book of Ray Bradbury, first published October 1947 by Arkham House.

He became the leader of the Theoretical Division at the laboratory in 1947 under the lab directorship of Norris Bradbury ( a position he held until 1973 ), and oversaw the development of the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s ( see Teller-Ulam design for more on the development history ).

When Snow assembled his 1947 collection Dark Music he wanted it to include a dozen of his best stories, including one of his more sinister tales, “ Midnight ,” which had appeared in the May 1946 issue of Weird Tales with Bradbury ’ s story “ The Smiling People .” Later, Bradbury agreed to write the foreword for the volume.

The Meadow is a radio drama by Ray Bradbury, written for a 1947 episode of the radio series World Security Workshop.

Rabbi Milton Steinberg wrote that " By its nature Judaism is averse to formal creeds which of necessity limit and restrain thought " and asserted in his book Basic Judaism ( 1947 ) that " Judaism has never arrived at a creed.

Joe Martin, the Republican Speaker from 1947 – 1949 and again from 1953 – 1955, wrote that Eisenhower " never surrounded himself with assistants who could solve political problems with professional skill.

Robert Lowell wrote in 1947, " Nothing could be more wrongheaded, than the English disputes about Dylan Thomas's greatness ...

During World War II, he worked in an animation department of the United States Army, where he wrote Design for Death, a film that later won the 1947 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

E. P. Thompson and his mother wrote There is a Spirit in Europe: A Memoir of Frank Thompson ( 1947 ).

" In 1947, he took eleven songs George had written but never used, provided them with new lyrics, and incorporated them into the Betty Grable film The Shocking Miss Pilgrim and he later wrote comic lyrics for Billy Wilder's movie Kiss Me, Stupid -- although most critics believe his final major work was for the 1954 Judy Garland film, A Star Is Born ).

In 1933, Schoenberg wrote an essay " Brahms the Progressive " ( re-written 1947 ), which drew attention to Brahms's fondness for motivic saturation and irregularities of rhythm and phrase ; in his last book ( Structural Functions of Harmony, 1948 ), he analysed Brahms's " enriched harmony " and exploration of remote tonal regions.

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan ( additional music ), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar ( with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music ), and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby !.

Elizabeth's political views were rarely disclosed, but a letter she wrote in 1947 described Attlee's " high hopes of a socialist heaven on earth " as fading and presumably describes those who voted for him as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused.

In 1947, anthropologist Harold Sterling Gladwin wrote " supermodel " in his book Men Out of Asia.

Hart also wrote some screenplays, including Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ) – for which he received an Oscar nomination – Hans Christian Andersen ( 1952 ) and A Star Is Born ( 1954 ).

In the 1947 preface to the third edition of Science and Sanity, Korzybski wrote, " We need not blind ourselves with the old dogma that ' human nature cannot be changed ,' for we find that it can be changed.

Korzybski wrote in the preface to the third edition of Science and Sanity ( 1947 ) that general semantics " turned out to be an empirical natural science.

Britten wrote Albert Herring for the English Opera Group in 1947, and it was while on tour that Pears came up with the idea of mounting a Festival in the small Suffolk seaside town of Aldeburgh, six miles from Snape, where Britten had now moved to a house on Crag Path.

He wrote regular critical articles for ; and letters to ; British newspapers, and after a visit to the British zone in October and November 1946, he published these along with a series of photos he took there in In Darkest Germany in January 1947.

" For approximately three years ( 1947 – 50 ), Fox wrote for EC Comics, including scripts and text pieces which appeared in the famous The Crypt of Terror, The Vault of Horror and Weird Fantasy titles, as well as in the lesser-known Gunfighter, Happy Houlihans, Moon Girl, Saddle Justice and the new trend title Valor, among others.

Cole's story " Murder, Morphine and Me ", which he illustrated and possibly wrote for publisher Magazine Village's True Crime Comics # 2 ( May, 1947 ), became a centerpiece of psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham's crusade against violent comic books.

Acheson devised the policy and wrote Truman's 1947 request to Congress for aid to Greece and Turkey, a speech which stressed the dangers of totalitarianism rather than Soviet aggression and marked the fundamental change in American foreign policy that became known as the Truman Doctrine.

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery wrote in 1947:

Pope Pius XII, who had a particular interest in the liturgy, wrote in his 1947 encyclical Mediator Dei that " the use of the mother tongue in connection with several of the rites may be of much advantage to the people ", though he stated at the same time that only the Holy See had the authority to grant permission for the use of the vernacular.

Together they wrote the screenplays of a number of animated movies, starting with the short " The Little Soldier " (" Le Petit Soldat ", 1947 ).

Sir John Edward Lloyd ( who wrote as J. E. Lloyd ) ( 5 May 1861 – 20 June 1947 ), was a Welsh historian, the author of the first serious history of the country's formative years, A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest, 2 vols.

During this period Fritz Perls wrote his first book, Ego, Hunger, and Aggression ( published in 1942 and re-published in 1947 ).

The same divergence also presented a problem for the International Organization for Standardization ( Organisation internationale de normalisation ) at its founding in 1947 ; it settled on the short name ISO as a compromise between IOS and OIN.

In 1917, Albert Einstein established the theoretical foundations for the laser and the maser in the paper Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung ( On the Quantum Theory of Radiation ); via a re-derivation of Max Planck ’ s law of radiation, conceptually based upon probability coefficients ( Einstein coefficients ) for the absorption, spontaneous emission, and stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation ; in 1928, Rudolf W. Ladenburg confirmed the existences of the phenomena of stimulated emission and negative absorption ; in 1939, Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify “ short ” waves ; in 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission ; in 1950, Alfred Kastler ( Nobel Prize for Physics 1966 ) proposed the method of optical pumping, experimentally confirmed, two years later, by Brossel, Kastler, and Winter.

In 1939, Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify " short " waves ; In 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission ; in 1950, Alfred Kastler ( Nobel Prize for Physics 1966 ) proposed the method of optical pumping, experimentally confirmed, two years later, by Brossel, Kastler, and Winter.

He published four influential short stories for The Saturday Evening Post magazine, leading off, in February 1947, with " The Green Hills of Earth ".

His first collection of short stories, Dark Carnival, was published in 1947 by Arkham House, a small press in Sauk City, Wisconsin, owned by writer August Derleth.

In November 1947, a short democratic period of Thailand was ended by a 2490 military coup.

The strength in the Dow occurred despite a brief recession in 1949 and other global conflicts which started a short time later including the latter stages of the Chinese Civil War, the Greek Civil War, the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

One of his Future History stories, the short story originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post ( February 8, 1947 ), and it was collected in The Green Hills of Earth ( and subsequently in The Past Through Tomorrow ).

Category: 1947 short stories

Pebble in the Sky was originally written in the summer of 1947 under the title " Grow Old with Me " for Startling Stories, whose editor Sam Merwin, Jr. had approached Asimov to write a forty thousand word short novel for the magazine.

* Maybe Just A Little One ( short story, 1947 )

This version was translated in 1947 by Hannah Josephson, who removed several short passages from the English version.

* Tony Pastor and His Orchestra ( 1947 ) ( short subject )

Motion Painting No. 1 is a 1947 short animated film in which film artist Oskar Fischinger put images in motion to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto no.

Agustín Lara's song " You Belong To My Heart " was featured in a Disney short called Pluto's Blue Note ( 1947 ).

* Le Petit Soldat ( The Little Soldier ) ( short animated film, 1947 ), with Paul Grimault, after The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen

Some are very short ( a week to ten days ) whereas others can stretch into months and years ( the 1947 eruption started March 29, 1947 and ended April 1948 ).

An author of novels, short stories, and plays, Mitchell is best known for his 1947 novel, Who Has Seen The Wind, which has sold close to a million copies in North America, and the radio series and later a collection of short stories 1961, Jake and the Kid, which subsequently won the Stephen Leacock Award.

This was to be short lived as it grossed a considerable amount of money in the 1947 re-release.

* Leben des Galilei ( 1947, short )

In May 1947, he was granted a short service commission in the RAF, with the substantive rank of flying officer ( seniority from 25 May 1946 ; later adjusted to 22 March 1946 ).