Groucho Marx, Vincent Price, poetry and atomic energy all came together for a radio broadcast in 1945 — a performance of Norman Corwin’s “The Undecided Molecule” Corwin called it a “rhymed fantasy concerning dangerous developments among the elements.”
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Oh, dear! Oh, dear!
The cosmic alarm!
Which means, I fear,
Some woeful harm
Is afoot or awing
In the universe.
Some deplorable thing,
Some active curse
Like a falling sky
Or a new star-cluster,
Been banged up by
A cluster-buster.
Most scientists who heard it were impressed and amused. But some people find no amusement in such subjects.
(Thanks to investigator Jim Lipscomb for bringing this to our
attention.)