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...insisting out loud that his weapon was better than the Army's Garand rifle (TIME, April 8). The Army arsenal at Springfield, Mass., after many bumbles, last week had Garand production up to 2,300 per week. After a year of agonized effort to tool up for the complex Garand, Winchester Repeating Arms Co. at last was almost ready to begin quantity production. But Ordnance officers were still unhappy about Melvin Johnson and all his works, including his latest: a 14-lb. (when loaded; 12-lb. empty), super-simple, one-man machine gun. The Department continued to beg inventors...
...Such complex gibberish annoys Surgeon Moses Benmosché of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. Surgeon Benmosché believes that patients have more guts when they are told more about them. This week Dr. Benmosché published the first popular primer of surgery: A Surgeon Explains to the Layman (Simon & Schuster; $3). His book is chock-full of bold diagrams, simple descriptions of operations. Dr. Benmosché's bookside manner is calm and reassuring, should serve as a tonic for healthy-minded patients. Sample information...
...arming to defend a particular form of representative government. We may at some later time wish to modify and simplify our highly complex governmental pattern. But most of us would believe we were arming to defend certain principles embodied in our constitutional form of government...
...attempt to press home their victory by getting their entire material - aid, pro - Roosevelt policy adopted, the Gottlieb bloc was balked by some complex procedural shennanigans and ultimatum from the Lowell House Senior Tutor that the meeting would have to end at eleven o'clock...
...living organisms the elements are grouped in complex molecules. Living structures are broken up by even mild heat. They cannot stand temperatures of 150° F. and over. The sun's surface temperature is about 10,000°, and no known star is cooler than 2,000 or 3,000°. Thus the stars are instantly ruled out as possible abodes of life. That leaves the planets...