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Daimler-Benz's postwar comeback was slow. For months, the surviving work force of 13,000 did little but rebuild U.S. staff cars to get money to reconstruct the smashed plant. Under Fritz Koenecke, 54, a wartime synthetic-rubber expert, Daimler-Benz production has risen to almost 25% more than its 1938 peacetime peak; its work force is now 35,000. In 1951, Daimler-Benz led all West German auto makers in value of production (800 million Deutsche mark, or $190 million), this year expects to produce 1 billion ($238 million) worth of autos and trucks. Already better than...
...Robinson Crusoe, which he plans to shoot this fall on the Juan Fernandez Islands, 400 miles off the coast of Chile, the scene of the actual story that inspired Defoe. As with Strange Deception, he sees the theme of his next picture as an expression of "how people . . . can reconstruct, outside of existing institutions and helped only by their own moral instinct and by their own experience of good and bad, their own moral life, to solve the main problems of mankind-those of justice and freedom...
...book published last week, Mary Magdalene (Pantheon; $3), is one of the most intelligent and provocative efforts yet made to reconstruct her character and its meaning. The author, Father Raymond Leopold Bruckberger, is a French Dominican priest, recently transplanted to the U.S., whose earlier books of memoirs and stories (One Sky to Share, Golden Goat) have had considerable success (TIME, Aug. 11; Nov. 24). His purpose in writing this one was to bring back to life the Magdalene, "la Femme coupèe en morceaux-the woman hacked into bits by modern exegetes...
...tusk, and small fragments of jawbone. From these scanty remains, the scientists deduced that the beast stood some 7-ft. tall at the withers, was a little smaller than later mastodons and a little bulkier than modern elephants. Now, if Dr. Simpson was correct, they would be able to reconstruct the whole Miomastodon head...
...near which the fatal shot had obviously been fired. The rifles of 21 men who had been nearest the position were checked by the New Jersey state police. The shell matched Edgar's Garand. The platoon was taken back to the area of the exercise and ordered to reconstruct the attack. Everyone turned up but Edgar, who had stolen a car and gone over the hill again...