Don't Touch

Stenciled in white on the wings of Nazi buzz-bombs are the words Nicht anfassen (Don't Touch). Britons heartily agree. But some men for professional reasons must get almost within touching distance. "Doc" Salomon did.

"Doc," an American, was studio manager for Warner Bros, in Britain. With Chief Sound Engineer Ernest Royle, "Doc" was responsible for last week's scoop broadcast of the sound of a flying bomb, passing very close overhead and crashing with a terrific explosion. Salomon and Royle went buzz-bomb hunting with a sound recording van for three nights before they got their perfect recording. So realistic was their sound track that, when it was played at Warner's studio and later at the Ministry of Information, building employes ran pell-mell for shelter.

One night last week "Doc's" luck ran out. A flying bomb crashed on him and killed him.

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