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Worst pun of the week: "May gal's a welder. She's carrying the torch...
Five minutes later John Gudgel and Dick Johnston were sipping martinis hurriedly in a desperate effort to forget what they had just seen: no bluejacket batting out code to the fleet, but rather, a welder and his torch sealing the seams in two steel plates...
MAGNITOGORSK John Scott, who spent ten years in Russia-first as a welder, then as a research chemist, finally as a foreign correspondent...
...Soviets while he was still at the University of Wisconsin. He figured a good factory worker would be a lot more welcome in Russia than another foreign journalist-so after college he went to the General Electric works at Schenectady and earned his certificate as a master electric welder. He took out a union card here, sailed for Russia-and then went to college all over again to learn the language there...
...September 1932 he was ready to tackle his first job-helping to build Siberian Magnitogorsk into a Russian Pittsburgh. He worked three years as a welder, then two years more as a chemist in a coke and chemical by-products plant. He became completely at home among the Russians and married a Russian girl-a teacher of mathematics. Russian is still the language usually spoken in his home in New York-but Mrs. Scott can speak English now and she is mighty glad to be on this side of the Atlantic...