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Long-distance German guns were indeed almost ready to rain ten V-3 rocket shells a minute on the British capital. At Mimoyecques, near Calais (95 miles from London), Allied troops found 50 smoothbore gun barrels, each 400 feet long, sunk 350 feet into chalk hills. The installation was partly protected by 18-ft. concrete roofs, impervious to bombs. But steady air attack had slowed the Todt Organization's construction of the site until it was too late. Also found were seven other elaborate installations on the French coast. At least one was for another secret weapon, still...
...second in a row, Jack Wallace, ace Crimson hurler, blanked a visiting nine Wednesday, as his teammates' bats pushed across enough runs to come out on top. While the strong armed right-hander whitewashed Northeastern with four hits Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity banged out eight hits to chalk...
...Forte on third by virtue of a passed ball, John Coppinger walked and stole second, but the inning ended as Allen rolled out. It was not until the ninth inning with the score already 15 to 2, that Harvard combined two singles and a walk to chalk up its third and last...
Necessity was the mother of his gridiron inventiveness. Because Tech's academic standards were high, his squads correspondingly small, onetime Mathematics Professor William Anderson Alexander devised an intricate type of play that few but his apt engineers could have mastered. Ruddy-faced Coach Alex carried his chalk and blackboard to the half-time dressing rooms, substituted diagraming for tear-jerking pep talks. He said rousing up the boys produced mental instability...
...Awful Condition. Thereafter, until his death in 1907, Wilfred Meynell and his poetess-wife Alice took care of Francis Thompson. They sent him to a hospital, then to the monastery at Storrington in Sussex-a country of Roman roads, rolling fields, abandoned chalk mines, rooks and sheep. Later, at the Franciscan monastery at Pantasaph in Wales, where he spent three years Thompson was forbidden money, even for postage stamps, lest he spend it for drugs He walked through the hills, wrapped in an ulster that extended from his neck to his ankles-"gentle, humble and good anc very conscious...