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Slit Trenches & Antiaircraft. As soon as the evacuation rehearsal was finished, platoons of U.S. "aggressor" troops began making simulated attacks on the runways at Fairbanks. Every mechanic, clerk and mess sergeant was called for a three-day defense of the field. The commissary was closed tight and the families who had only pretended to evacuate actually began to run low on food. Last week similar mock battles were being fought at other bases...
...Hungarian immigrants who moved to Steelville when he was seven, John Zahorsky worked as a pharmacist, file clerk and ladies' wear salesman to pay for his way through Missouri Medical College (since absorbed by Washington University). Within ten years he had set some doctors sniffing with his idea that children's colds were more often caused by contagion than by exposure to bad weather. Soon he was protesting against taking newborn babies from their mothers and massing them in an aseptic nursery...
Despite his loss to Tom Brown, some sportwriters were already labeling young Ken McGregor as potentially the best amateur of 1951. McGregor, a part-time sporting-goods clerk from Melbourne, showed no sign that he had such an opinion. He explained his victory over Schroeder simply: "I never played better in my life." But Australia, with 21-year-old Ken McGregor and 22-year-old Sedgman, appeared to have established a leasehold on the big cup for a few years, at least...
...Antonio Albertondo, 31, an Argentine brewery clerk...
Lady for a Day. In Beeston, England, when none of the local girls' mothers would let them take the part, the council selected Dennis Harratt, a 27-year-old railway clerk, to play Lady Godiva (in tights) in the town pageant...