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...pick an orchid in the back yard of the house on bomb-battered Leveriza Street where TIME'S Manila correspondents live, but you have to lug some chlorinated water home if you want to brush your teeth. There are half a dozen bullet holes in the walls, and the staff of five TIME & LiFErs there had to get along without lights at night for quite a stretch...
Before he went to war, Lawson was a tenor with Robert Shaw's Collegiate Chorale, and afterwards he appeared in some soldier shows. But a year of infantry fighting overseas and six months of paralysis from bullet wounds shattered his stage poise. His voice was as lusty as ever, but audiences gave him the heebie-jeebies and a spotlight froze him stiff...
...usable in military aircraft (when hit by an incendiary bullet, it may atomize and explode - explode-something like a dust explosion). Standard Oil thinks its most likely use will be in postwar, civilian, long-range flights: the fuel is so safe that it will make feasible the refueling of planes...
...materials of the buildings. Much of the brick and stone, including the marble walls of the Reichs Chancellery, can be used again. A sign on a brick pile says: "These bricks are the property of the city of Berlin. Persons taking them away will be punished." The bullet-clipped trees of the Tiergarten will grow again. The statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I on the Schloss-Platz has its eagles scattered about, but the old man rides as arrogantly as ever...
...corroborative evidence a picture of one of the most fantastic: a gun that shoots around corners (see cut). Designed so that a soldier can keep out of sight while firing, the gun has a curved barrel and a special sight for aiming from around a corner. After emerging, the bullet flies fairly straight, Allied experts said, but not very accurately...