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Some charter members of Post 591: an 18-year-old sailor wounded by shrapnel (South Pacific); a young private with punctured ear drums (North Africa); a paratrooper who injured his back in a practice jump; an ex-National Guardsman suffering from shock and war neurosis; a 45-year-old World War I veteran who was drafted again for World War II and served in a medical battalion until discharged...
World War I interrupted this by mustering him as an Austrian soldier. Severely wounded by shrapnel, he resumed his law studies in Vienna, took his doctor's degree by which he is sometimes addressed today but which has no connection with music. Then revolution blasted eastern Europe. Rodzinski went to the Ukraine as an Austrian agent in charge of food imports. Returning stability found him back in Lwow, as a price fixer on eggs, meat and vegetables. In the evenings he played the piano in a honkytonk...
...history and philosophy, not so well in mathematics. In the class of April 20, 1917, he stood in among 139. From commencement he entered the sterner school of World War I. He sailed for France as a captain of infantry. In action in the Vosges he received a shrapnel wound...
This simplification of a difficult operation was reported last week by Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital. It was the first use in so delicate an operation of the "metal locator" that' helped surgeons extract pieces of shrapnel from the wounded at Pearl Harbor (TIME, Jan. 19, 1942). Although simpler and quicker than X ray, the locator (which is attached to a sensitive ammeter) had hitherto been considered too crude for such fine work. The assistant who helped the Mt. Sinai surgeon use the instrument was its inventor Manhattan Subway Engineer Samuel Berman...
Quick Murder. Most spectacular development is time fire. By 1941, with 105s replacing 75s, field artillery had abandoned shrapnel for a more effective, more easily controlled shell which could be regulated to explode directly above its target. Bursting at a height of 15 yards, a 105 time-fire shell sprays an area 40 yards wide and five yards deep with razor-sharp, saw-toothed shell fragments. No gun is completely accurate, but with massed time fire blanketing huge areas pinpoint accuracy is no longer a problem...