Drawn from popular vehicles, here are pieces about the year's advance in medicine, physics and chemistry, aviation, miscellaneous sciences. Penicillin, by-products of blood, pain control, tantalum (the new surgical wonder metal), skin care, childhood diseases, mental disease, industrial and war research, the new insect killers, vacuum engineering, the electron, rocket ships and buzz bombs, new fuels, etc. All providing scientific interest and information. Check your market for this annual.