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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost as phenomenal as his comic-strip career is Superman's vogue with U. S. youth. He appears in 77 U. S. dailies, 36 Sunday papers. With Superman its ace, the magazine Action Comics' net paid circulation has whooped since June 1938 from 130,000 to 800,000. Superman Quarterly is gobbled up at the rate of 1,300,000 copies an edition. The Superman Club has 100,000 members, including Eric & Jean LaGuardia, Spanky McFarland (Our Gang Comedies), a La Follette, a Du Pont, eleven middies from Annapolis, 16 students at Hiram (Ohio) College. In the works...
...Danes already there, incorporate them into a Danish battalion. His acceptance by the Finns ended a squabble between the Finns and the Danish volunteers, who had been commanded by a Finnish major. Besides these infantrymen, the Danes have a ten-plane air wing in service with the Finns (its ace flier, Lieut. Fritz Rasmussen, was recently shot down in action), 13 surgeons and 40 nurses with the hospital service. Last week Copenhagen began recruiting a labor battalion of blacksmiths, masons, carpenters, metal workers, farm hands. Nearly 10,000 signed up, at $60 a month, before the recruiting office...
Harvard's ace anthropologist, Earnest Albert Hooton, summed it up this way: "Dr. Ales Hrdlicka has stood like Horatius at the land bridge between Asia and North America, mowing down with deadly precision all would-be geologically ancient invaders of the New World...
...point decided the meet for the visitors last year, and the Peroymen are determined to get the full measure of revenge. With ace sabreman Tom Wright returning to the squad temporarily, the prospects are good, but the epee team will be an uncertain factor after its poor showing last Saturday against Brown...
...breastroker Tony Soltysiak, sprinter Witold Babula, and diver Len Gath the visitors have three capable performers, but, for the most part, the meet will do little more than provide some of the younger Crimson squad members with valuable experience. In addition, dorsal ace Art Bosworth may get a chance to try his hand at one of the free-style events...