Word: wizards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, a television and wirephoto wizard named Leroy J. Leishman (he thought up push-button radio tuning) has perfected a stereo-fluoroscope which gives a three-dimensional view of the body's interior. With the Leishman device, a surgeon can look into a wounded soldier, twiddle some knobs until he sees what he is looking for, insert a slim, sterilized needle straight to an embedded bullet or shell fragment. Later the metal can be removed cleanly without extra probing and blood loss, simply by following the needle. In fracture cases, the surgeon can watch the bones slip into place...
Germany. The Italian collapse caught Hitler's evil wizard Paul Joseph Goebbels unprepared. All last week he gave the German people only the barest factual details while he floundered from one explanation to another. Pessimism was rampant. Wrote the German-controlled Brüsseler Zeitung: "At present we rest our hopes exclusively on our own military strength, for there is nothing else to hope...
...Census Bureau Building raged a pitched battle. OPA's "slide-rule boys," the Leon Henderson carryovers headed by gangling "5-ft.-20-in." Deputy Price Administrator J. Kenneth Galbraith, grappled with the new "let's-be-reasonable boys," headed by stocky Lou Russel Maxon, the Detroit advertising wizard whom Prentiss Brown hired to humanize...
...always say," he declares, "that there are more churches in Harlem than cabarets. The Negro is not merely a singing and dancing wizard, but a loyal American in spite of his social position. I want to tell America how the Negro feels about...
Earl Brown's basketball team, currently lounging in the Ivy League cellar, is casualty number two. Don Lutze, wizard defensive cager, will not be in College for the second semester, as he expects to be drafted very soon. Tom Axon, reserve forward, left during examination period for a meteorology school, and Dick Sorlien, another substitute...