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...Doctors and dentists with 80 points, or who are 48 years old, or who joined up before Pearl Harbor, can get out immediately unless they are in certain specialties (eye, ear, nose & throat work, plastic surgery, orthopedic surgery, neuropsychiatry, etc.). These specialists (except those who enlisted before 1941) will have to stay in until the Army lets them go. All other doctors who have enough points can be kept in after December 15 only with their consent...
...handful of music critics, Victor last week sent samples of the first non-breakable records ever made for home use -an album of Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks (played by Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony) on transparent, ruby-red plastic discs. They were the shape and size of Victor's familiar twelve-inch Red Seals, but engineers promised that they would exceed the shellac Red Seals' normal life expectancy of some 1,000 playings. The samples seemed to have more fidelity and less surface noise than ordinary records...
...jumps ahead of its competitors, Victor fondly believed that its vinyl resin plastics were the biggest thing in records since Soprano Emma Albani first cut Angels Ever Bright and Fair in 1903. But Victor is going slow. Till Eulenspiegel will be released Oct. 15, and it will be followed by only as many plastic albums as the public demands...
...last week revealed another military secret: body armor-the first to be widely worn by foot soldiers since the Middle Ages-saved the life of many a World War II marine, soldier and sailor. Made of thin sheets of glass fiber cloth impregnated and bonded with resin, the new plastic armor proved tougher, pound for pound, than steel. Though not proof against a direct bullet hit, it was effective against shrapnel, especially useful in amphibious invasions...
...PONT DE NEMOURS & Co. Nylon and Nylon yarn for stockings, Neoprene synthetic rubber, most chemical products and plastic materials can be switched to civilian use as soon as the cancellation telegrams reach Wilmington...