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...Specialty. Son of a bank cashier, Harold Lee Giesler (pronounced Geese-ler) was born in Wilton Junction, Iowa. He was about to go to the University of Michigan when he developed eye trouble and went instead to Los Angeles, where he drove a horse-drawn lumber wagon. Soon he began studying law at U.S.C. and clerking in the office of Earl Rogers, a flamboyant attorney who was a kind of Edwardian Giesler. Rogers nicknamed him Jerry, and the young attorney got some of his first courtroom experience helping Rogers successfully defend Clarence Darrow against a charge of bribing jurors...
...ROAD PAST MANDALAY, by John Masters. The author, a British officer in the Indian army in Burma during World War II and a professional novelist (Bhowani Junction) since then, writes with skill and passion of the many faces...
...possible, the Army Corps of Engineers-which supervises actual construction for the Air Force-puts as many as five contractors to work on a project at the same time. Their work must dovetail perfectly, with tolerances to the disappearing point. If one contractor does not place an electrical junction box precisely right on a silo wall, it will not link with the cable being laid concurrently by another crew. If a silo is out of round by half an inch, the steel crib on which a missile rests will not fit correctly. Says a project engineer: "Our assembly line stretches...
...land between the two camps moves John Masters, who from 1934 to 1947 was a professional soldier of a particularly proud breed-an officer in the Indian army. Since then, he has become a professional writer with seven novels about India to his credit (Bhowani Junction, Nightrunners of Bengal, The Venus of Konpara). In his autobiographical The Road Past Mandalay, Masters uses his novelist's insight and his soldier's knowledge to write an absorbing, sharply distinctive story of World War II as fought in the East...
...Leaks that let out too much wanted sound and let in too much unwanted noise are common, may be found almost anywhere in the tubing, valve or chest-piece junction...