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During the football season the busiest part of the day for trainers and rub-down men under Jim Cox comes in the early part of the afternoon when the Varsity is turning out for practice. Joe Murphy, who runs the supply room, estimates that the trainers wind 100 miles of tape around uncertain joints during the course of the year, and the amount of energy put into rubbing down swollen limbs is incalculable...
...victory in the Battle of the Atlantic, were hard at work on "the largest naval bases ever built." Whether or not they were the largest ever, it seemed likely that the new French bases would be pretty good. They were the latest effort of the Nazis' Busiest Beaver, Dr. Fritz Todt,* and last week the Third Reich characteristically rewarded him-by giving him another huge...
Last week death broke one of the remaining links between the late great Joseph Pulitzer and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Dead from a stroke was 83-year-old George Sibley Johns, one of the great ancients of journalism, whose busiest years ended in 1930 when he became editor emeritus of the Post-Dispatch after 48 years as a newspaperman...
Chicago's busiest muckraker is the Rev. Elmer Williams (Methodist), 67, husky, hot-tempered publisher of Lightnin' (average circ. 2,500), a lively, often accurate little sheet which for years has lambasted the Chicago Tribune, gangsters, labor racketeers, politicians. But not until last week was Crusader Williams sued for libel. A State's Attorney's investigator and two furriers sued because Lightnin' called them fur racketeers. Acquitted in 20 minutes flat, Gadfly Williams told the Court: "I am not a reformer, I am an informer...
...months of this year 595,580 revenue passengers traveled by air, up 35% to a record high. This gain is largely because of, and largely useful to, defense. With 156 planes landing and taking off at Washington's airport every 24 hours it has become one of the busiest plane hives...