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...Ann Arbor, Mich...
...story: the real Nancy Hanks, the natural daughter of a well-born Virginia planter, was a pretty barmaid at her Aunt Ann's tavern at Craytonville, S.C. Calhoun, who was just beginning law practice, stopped there often on his way home from court. When Nancy was discovered pregnant, Calhoun quickly admitted his guilt and gave her $500 to leave the State. For a second $500 he arranged to have a trader's hired hand take her home with him. The hired hand was husky, hard-drinking Tom Lincoln. When the trader's wife objected to having...
This Saturday, at Ann Arbor, Minnesota and Michigan will fight for the Little Brown Jug, a trophy that has survived 38 years of football rivalry. Until last week, this year's Michigan team-"wrecked" by the loss of Tom Harmon and Forrest Evashevski-was written off as a pushover for Coach Bernie Bierman's gigantic Gophers, favorites to win the mythical 1941 football championship of the U.S. as they did the 1940. But last week Michigan's omens improved: Michigan outsmarted Northwestern (14-to-7). More important for the superstitious, its victory was won with brilliant touchdown...
...both Michigan and Minnesota will take the field at Ann Arbor with their slates clean. Besides highly-touted Northwestern, which had rolled up 92 points in its first two games, Michigan has beaten Michigan State (19-to-7), Iowa (6-to-0), Pittsburgh (40-to-0). Minnesota's three victims are Washington (14-to-6), Illinois (34-to-6) and Pittsburgh (39-to-0). If the Gophers beat Michigan (as they have for the past eight years), they still have Northwestern, Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin to tackle...
Betty Cordon, the Stork Club's official G. G. No. 1, started back to school to learn to be a kindergarten teacher. Ann Sheridan, the Harvard Lampoon's onetime choice for "least likely to succeed," joined President James Bryant Conant as an honorary editor of the literary Harvard Advocate. Sailors of the U.S. Navy decided buxom Cinemactress Jane Russell was "the girl we'd like most to have waiting for us in every port," sent her six loving cups. Home with mother was Lenore Lemmon, ten-day bride of playful Jakie Webb. Lenore said she had found...