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Joseph Stalin smiled, Joseph Davies smiled, Viacheslav Molotov smiled.* Then the special messenger from the White House shook hands warmly with his Kremlin hosts. He was off for the U.S., with his dyspepsia and pills and the wax-sealed envelope bearing Joseph Stalin's reply to Franklin Roosevelt. Everyone, agreed that Mission II to Moscow, its nature still a secret, had gone famously...
...Potential Pounds. The Wire Recorder weighs only 10 lb. (minus the amplifier and tubes) and, when electric pow er lines are not available, runs on 25 lb. of batteries in a pack sack. Its ten miles of wire are good for four hours. Unlike a wax or rubber recording, the wire can be used again & again, because it can be wiped clean merely by reversing its run through the instrument, which unscrambles the molecules...
This equipment was first tried out on wax models of a human thigh. Afterward, when a surgeon used it to find a needle in a fat woman's shoulder, the tiny object, usually a surgeon's bugbear, was snagged in 47 seconds. Dr. Cole wishes the Army would give the method a trial, thinks it would be able to detect bullets or shell shards more quickly, cut down probing and cutting...
...this former Kario: monopoly but no one could ever recognize a person under that mound of greasepaint and sponge-rubber anyway. Bela Lugosi as the wolfman who finds warm blood and moonshine a most stimulating combination, grows progressively more and more, and less and less hirstute as the moons wax and wane...
Bomb bursts and gun cracks are not the only war noises that shatter or dull the mechanism of the human ear (TIME, Nov. 2). The racket and roar of heavy machinery is also a menace. To quell such clamor, some workers use plugs of cotton, rags, rubber, wax. These are not always sanitary, are sometimes dangerous...