Word: docs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stenciled in white on the wings of Nazi buzz-bombs are the words Nicht anfassen (Don't Touch). Britons heartily agree. But some men for professional reasons must get almost within touching distance. "Doc" Salomon...
...Doc," an American, was studio manager for Warner Bros, in Britain. With Chief Sound Engineer Ernest Royle, "Doc" was responsible for last week's scoop broadcast of the sound of a flying bomb, passing very close overhead and crashing with a terrific explosion. Salomon and Royle went buzz-bomb hunting with a sound recording van for three nights before they got their perfect recording. So realistic was their sound track that, when it was played at Warner's studio and later at the Ministry of Information, building employes ran pell-mell for shelter...
...City Bar's wide wooden counter, MacKenzie County farmers, their jeans heavy with cash, drank up 40 cases of beer a day. At Christensen's hardware store they stripped the shelves nearly bare. They played poker, guzzled, loafed, had Doc Winter put gold in their teeth...
Wheeze. In a Fort Snelling, Minn, medical center, a doctor wandered among unclothed men - some newly inducted, others newly slated for overseas - examined one briefly, told him he had asthma, was 4-F. Wheezed the man: "I've been in the Army 15 months, Doc...
...over. It grew colder. Major Bill Rosson, of Eugene, Ore., whose men were not yet committed, came over the edge of the ditch. He sat down and bubbled: "We just pulled into that haystack ahead at 3 a.m. when an old woman in the farmhouse started having a baby. Doc Rhodes delivered the brat. He weighed about seven pounds-a nice kid. The Italians wanted Doc to name the kid and Doc decided to name him after me. We got in an interpreter and named him 'Guglielmo.' That's for me, Guglielmo Rosson...