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...armed, egg-bald "General Bruno" is a comic-strip character who can do with his one arm what most ordinary mortals would be proud to do with two. In the Bell Syndicate's strip, "Miss Fury" the General is frustrated by Brazilian guerrillas in his campaign to open the way for an Axis invasion. In his latest battle the Brazilians destroyed his soldiers' tanks, guns, helmets and even their belt buckles with metal-dissolving pellets, leaving the bewildered Germans unarmed and helpless under a hail of arrows...
Eight years ago Bill Eitel and Jack McCullough, two young California radio hams, set out to prove that they could make a vacuum tube higher powered and cheaper than anyone had ever made before. They had $5,000 put up by two friends, an empty meat market in San Bruno near San Francisco, and some practical experience in the laboratories of a nearby radio manufacturer, Heintz & Kaufman. Last week Bill and Jack had an enormous military-secret backlog, a new plant in the West besides their hugely expanded San Bruno factory, a long list of licensees, and an Army & Navy...
When war orders for "Eimac" tubes began to roll in E. & M. still had only 22 employes. Now they have 50 times as many in San Bruno alone, expect to have many times that when their new plant, opened last July, really gets going full blast. By last year they were able to shell out $57,000 for one backer's $2,500 original investment (the other backer, who built E. & M.'s new factory, is still clinging to his paper profits...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). Less heady than Toscanini's for Victor, Walter's 8th is as mellow as well-aged Viennese slivovitz...
...class, was promptly snapped up by the rival NBC Orchestra. Massive Flutist John Amans, famed for his ability to make his tootling instrument boom like a church organ, was retired, replaced by the NBC Orchestra's Pennsylvania-born John Wummer. World's champion French Horn Player Bruno Jaenicke, suffering from a heart ailment, prepared to spend the rest of his career sitting on the sidelines while a younger man, Rudolph Puletz Jr., did most of his puffing...