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...Except for a homemade planetarium at Springfield, Mass, which does not show planets. Contrived by Technician Frank Korkosz of Springfield's Museum of Natural History, it cost less than $12,000. Cost of Buhl star thrower...
...enveloping attack, what Pilsudski called the strategy of "open spaces." During last year's Polish Army maneuvers, the German military attache asked what use Poland, with its terrible roads, had for tanks. The Marshal smiled and said: "Ah, but you have good roads." The Marshal is a scholar-technician rather than a leader-drillmaster. Like France's Maurice Gamelin, he is an admirer and close student of Napoleon. In his study are two busts and four portraits of the Little Corporal. Softspoken, shy, gentle, he cannot be profane or brutal when he tries. The Army...
Gilbert Wright, now a writer, used to be a cowpuncher, a lifeguard, a utility technician, a tutor. Born 38 years ago in Kansas, he graduated (1925) from the University of California, where he studied physics and mathematics. He taught math at a military academy for a year, took to writing short stories. Unwilling to capitalize on his father's fame, he used the pseudonym of "John Le Bar." Liberty found out who he was some years ago; since then he has signed his own name to his fiction...
...Israel hospitalized his patient last week, called in two colleagues and an X-ray technician. The X-ray photographs showed that she was carrying in her belly what doctors call a lithopedian ("stone baby")-a retained fetus which has calcified. It was in the normal knee-chest position, head down and perfectly formed. Obviously the baby had died just at full term. Other lithopedians have been recorded, but they were invariably formless round masses. Dr. Israel decided that he had the only full-term lithopedian known to medicine...
Married. Sir Frederick Grant Banting, 47, University of Toronto professor, who won the Nobel Prize (1923) as co-discoverer of insulin; and Henrietta Ball, 27, laboratory technician; his second, her first; in Toronto...