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...made of an aluminum-nickel-cobalt-iron alloy called "Alnico," announced some years ago by General Electric (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935). The first researches on its magnetic properties were by Professor T. Mishima of Tokyo Imperial University. Alnico has come into wide use in motors, radios and amplifiers, blowout fields, and in other apparatus where electromagnets (temporary magnets which lose their drawing power when the current which activates them is shut off) are not suitable...
...Wally's favorite models was Sergeant Alexander Woollcott, star reporter for The Stars and Stripes. Woollcott, elegant of uniform and gait, swooning at the sound of a tire blowout, was pictured with Reporter Hudson Hawley, whom Wally made famous as the "Salut-ing Demon." In the hectic offices of The Stars and Stripes, Wally found other models: Editor Harold Ross, now editor of The New Yorker; Poet Tip Bliss, whose dog tried to bite General Pershing on his only visit to the office; Colyumnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.); Mark Watson, now Sunday editor of the Baltimore...
...That after a blowout, as after a skid, it is dangerous to put on the brakes until the car has slowed down and come under control...
...Blowout Delays Upson...
...Blowout...