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...football team in the U.S. This year a new generation of Great Lakes footballers, recruited from recent All-Americas, may go to the Rose Bowl again. But if physical fitness, mental discipline and the will-to-win cut any swath on a football field, the steam rollers that should blitz this year's college elevens will come from the Navy's four preflight training centers: St. Mary's, University of Iowa, University of Georgia, University of North Carolina...
...Blitz Tactics. One non-caller was James Aloysius Farley. Genial Jim had made a White House call early in June, had indicated that the President had approved Jim Farley's man for Governor: mild, blameless Attorney General John J. Bennett Jr. By last week 51 of the 62 county organizations, said Farley, were committed to Bennett...
...part the cathedral was saved by firemen who stood on the roof during more than an hour of terrific blitz and tossed dozens of incendiary bombs a minute to the ground. In part it was saved by the foresight of Canterbury's famed "Red Dean," Dr. Hewlett Johnson, who learned a lesson from the bombing of Coventry Cathedral, some time ago had ladders run up along all Canterbury's flying buttresses so that firemen could rush to the roof...
...poetry. "It was exciting to hear Winston Churchill recite Shakespeare. On and on his sonorous voice rolled. He was acting the part now. He was Hamlet, and not a word in a long passage did he miss." Reynolds got a great kick out of London's worst aerial blitz, writes his report of it in semi-cablese: . . . THE BLITZ WAS AT ITS VERY HEIGHT AND MORE THAN ONCE THE BIG SAVOY SHOOK UNDER THE PARAGRAPH QUOTE EYE WONDER HOW MANY OF US WILL BE ALIVE IN THE MORNING UNQUOTE A WOMAN SAID CALMLY STOP WE LOOKED AT HER INCREDULOUSLY...
Against such defenses, the typical blitz-the quick shock, the breakthrough, the spearing advance by planes, tanks and mobile artillery, then the followup by infantry-will not serve as it did in Poland, in the Lowlands, in Russia's first months. Now, in depth and thorough preparation, the Russian defenses are stronger than those which slowed the Nazi drive last fall, then stopped it with winter's paralyzing help. But, if Stalin and his staff have learned how to crack the 1940-model blitz. Hitler's generals have had many months to study Soviet defense. Moscow...