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Commonest form of welding used today is arc welding. An arc welder has for his tool a device that holds a pencil-sized metal rod carrying a heavy (around 200 amps) electric current of low voltage. When he brings the rod close to the metal to be welded, the current leaps across the near-contact, forming a blinding arc whose temperature-some 6,500° F.-melts both the rod and the metal being welded into tiny molten pools which quickly cool into solid metal. Since the welder's rod (called an electrode) melts down like a candle...
...Maurice Leblanc, 76, "the French Conan Doyle"; in Perpignan, France. Unsuccessful poet and so-so novelist, brother of Maeterlinck's friend Georgette Leblanc (TIME, Nov. 3), in 1906 he created Arsene Lupin, "Robin Hood of the drawing rooms," saw his whodunits translated into 25 languages. Working with lead pencil in an all-glass room, he confessed himself mystified by the inspiration for his plots...
Responses to her plea were varied in enthusiasm and comment according to the instigators of the plot. One eager Sophomore begged her to wait just a minute, "while I get a pencil and paper. And can I take you?" he questioned the sweet-voiced miss...
...towering superstructure. Off to starboard a destroyer close at hand plowed on in precise formation, grew dim and lost outline as darkness fell. Off to port, hull-down on the horizon and patrolling the area where the shells would fall, another destroyer disappeared except for the slim reaching pencil of her searchlight, the occasional blinking of her signal light...
...being barred because the Propaganda Ministry didn't like remarks made in the U.S. by CBS Commentator Elmer Davis about P. G. Wodehouse who has become a Nazi broadcaster (TIME, July 14). CBS told the Nazis they could continue to censor its broadcasts in Berlin, but could blue-pencil no CBS copy originating in the U.S. Getting tough with the Nazis got results. Berlin, which appreciates the privilege of sending censored material over major U.S. networks, restored CBS's broadcasting rights...