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Prior to this encounter the soldiers had been riding along on the crest of a seven-game winning streak which was rudely interrupted by Phil Weeks sixth inning three-run homer. Tom Axon was the winning pitcher. Leverett also took the nightcap...
...those months General MacArthur, beglamored by Bataan, had reached Australia to take over a united command amid the plaudits of a hero-hungry people. Australian spirits rebounded from the Singapore slump to a crest of clamor for men & tools to launch a gigantic offensive northward against the Japanese. Not till the staggering news of the fall of Tobruk did Australians realize that their Pacific second front was receding into the future, and chat they had in their midst the strange spectacle of a four-star general, only top-ranking U.S. officer experienced in actual combat in World War II, stranded...
...optimism swirled up, as swiftly and intangibly as the crest of a breaker. Churchill's last broadcast had sounded almost triumphant; U.S. cartoonists, editors, columnists seized on every Russian skirmish as another great blow to Hitler. Chicago, for some Illinoisy reason, was pervaded with high optimism. Lots of people thought the war was being...
Died. Jacques Bustanoby, 62, famed pre-World War I restaurateur (Café de la Paix); in Manhattan. He and brothers Pierre, André and Louis rode the crest of extravagant wining and dining in Manhattan before Prohibition, introduced dinner dances, the first women's bar in the city, lured Vernon and Irene Castle as entertainers. Rudolph Valentino as a $10-a-week gigolo...
...books, the 1941 Varsity lightweights rowed the fastest Henley over the Charles on record, and that includes efforts by heavy crews. On the crest of a squall the H. H. Haines special covered the mile and five-sixteenths in 6:40, a full second under the course record set by the 1942 Freshman boat...