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...billion cigarets a year, was drawing a bead on his nearest leader, Chesterfield. Then the war began to pinch production. His galloping sales increases slowed down to a walk. Now, production is virtually frozen at 34 billion cigarets a year (six brands) compared to Liggett & Myers' (Chesterfield) 66 bil lions, R. J. Reynolds' (Camel) 77 billions and American's (Lucky Strike) 94 billions...
Graduation, transfers, and greetings from the President have bil the team, but without disastrous effect. The chief losses include Wally Chubb, quartermiler. who graduated last month, and John Kent, half-miler, who is now in boot training...
...Harvard plays its football for fun," "Chub" Peabody declared last night when he spoke, over a coast-to-coast NBC hook-up, as a member of Bil Stern's Life Magazine All-America team. On the same program were Brude Smith and Dick Wildon of Miunesota, Frank Sinkwich of Georgia, and Frankie Albert of Stanford...
...colony, "probably the most effective Fifth Column agency in all Latin America." Central America. "One of the most remarkable characters in the Americas" is 63-year-old General Jorge Ubico, Guatemala's "constitutional President" who is "an utterly complete dictator." He keeps Guatemala "as orderly as an empty bil liard table," himself patrols the whole country on a motorcycle. When he finds a lazy official relaxing in an automobile, he takes the car away from him, gives him a motorcycle. "Try this for a year," he says, "and see how it shakes your kidneys up." Germans in Guatemala completely...
This theory - which Dr. Compton admitted last week is only tentative - nevertheless bumps into the views of Belgium's Abbé Georges Lemaitre, proponent of the "Exploding Universe." Abbe Lemaitre believes the cosmic rays are fragments of a universal explosion which took place bil lions of years ago, and therefore that the rays should fill all space more or less uniformly. This is only one of several hypotheses advanced to account for the rays' origin. Dr. Millikan used to believe they were liberated in interstellar space during the coalescence of light elements into heavier ones. Dr. Fritz Zwicky...