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Here is the picture as we go into the last week of the regular season. Tommy Donovan's high-flying Beavers last week took the biggest dive since the Washington Redskins of 1940, as the Browns roared by them into first place on the crest of a five game winning streak. After beating the Dodgers 6 to 3 Wednesday, the Beavers fell apart at the seams Thursday when the Browns clubbed them 19-2, and then on Friday they were the victims of Keith Miller's three-hit pitching as the Tigers, finding a sudden power at the plate...
...home. Take that bad morning at the factory, we had umpteen imminent-danger warnings between half past seven and twelve o'clock. All that bloody morning down and up, start the machines, switch on, start to take a cut, and then the warning goes and you dive again...
Like his boss, General Montgomery, he was full of toplofty contempt for the Germans. He conceded that some German airmen in the desert were good, but considered most of them "poor stuff . . . incredible hoots." He called the then celebrated Stuka dive bomber an "overrated crate"-which...
There was little jesting about the menace. Londoners took seriously the flip motto of one ack-ack crew: "If doodle dallies, don't dawdle. Dive!" Nicknames for the Things were short-lived. The latest: "bumblebees." Most Londoners, with prop er respect, called the Things by their formal name: flying bombs...
...When things hot up and you dive into a foxhole you are just as likely as not to find that the man who followed you was a brigadier or major general...