KC’s Column

GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1808

Announcer: “Two Thousand Plus, science fiction adventures from the world of tomorrow, the years beyond 2000 A.D. Tonight, Two Thousand Plus presents ‘The Insect.’”

(a typical opening for Two Thousand Plus, a science fiction anthology on radio; Mutual, March 15, 1950, to Jan. 2, 1952)

DUCK AND COVER

As of Dec. 19 there were 33 members of Congress—20 Democrats and 13 Republicans—w…