1.   He turned the H.G. Wells tale about a Martian invasion of Earth into a simulated news broadcast that was so convincing it panicked listeners across the country.

2.   Right -- and everyone believing in Martian invasions please step this way.

3.   Thousands sought refuge in cellars, jammed highways and tied up telephone lines when they wrongly thought the dramatic program was real news coverage of a Martian invasion.

4.   We all know by now that Wells foiled his Martian invasion by infecting the unwelcome visitors with plain old earthbound germs.