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...Protests. The news explained beyond much doubt what had happened to the first missing plane, an equally defenseless transport used as a "flying classroom" for Swedish air force radio operators, and to its complement of eight. The Baltic from Finland to Danzig was aswim with Soviet warships and submarines, the sky was thick with Russian jets; all were engaged in sea and air maneuvers...
Reporting that game, the New York Times's Allison Danzig called Kazmaier's performance "one of the greatest passing exhibitions ever seen on any gridiron since the introduction of the pass in 1906." The Herald Tribune decided that "Princeton's all-around operations on offense and defense and Dick Kazmaier's transcendent solo deeds against Cornell were the peak performances, team and individual, of a football coach's lifetime." Cornell's veteran coach, Lefty James, said simply, with the disarming candor of the defeated: "The greatest back I've ever seen...
...Pole who reached Trieste and freedom by caching himself in the space between the ceiling and roof of a train coach on the Danzig express...
Crosses for the Captain. Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, son of a Württemberg schoolmaster, was a professional soldier and a good one from the start. At 20, he was graduated from the War Academy at Danzig and commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry. Two years later, in August 1914, he went into action in France. Says Biographer Young: "From the moment that he first came under fire he stood out as the perfect fighting animal, cold, cunning, ruthless, untiring, quick of decision, incredibly brave." Rommel emerged from World War I with only the rank of captain...
...After scrambling out of the tunnel, they rolled into a ditch outside the camp, and then escaped into the nearby pine forest. Dressed in the clothing of French workmen, Peter and John caught the night train to Frankfurt, while their companion, disguised as a traveling salesman, hit out for Danzig. In Stettin Peter and John had no end of trouble trying to stow away aboard a Swedish ship, finally accepted a Danish crew boss's offer to smuggle them into Denmark and hand them over to the Danish underground. Half a dozen harrowing adventures later, they reached the British...