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Bulow's chief worry in the primaries is "Cowboy Tom" Berry, 63, who is 5 ft. 10 in. without his sombrero, weighs 195 lb. Berry is a friend of Harry Hopkins; was Governor of the State during the lean years of drought and grasshoppers. Berry has backed much of the New Deal. Also known as a South Dakota wit, Berry is needling Bulow on his pensions record...
Almost equidistant between two oceans, South Dakota has long been muffled in the wide spaces of its prairies, now green after the drought years. But today South Dakotans talk of the Battle of Burma, thirst after another raid on faraway Tokyo, seem less interested in the local issues which seem to dominate the campaign. The primary date...
Jallez comes in by way of Odessa. Romains' account of the run-around the Russians give him is as icily slick as the run-around itself. But his reporting of the famine is harder to swallow whole. The drought and the European blockade, Jallez finds, are far less responsible for the famine than the subhuman corruptness of the local officials. This and other arraignments, just or not, are set down in much too general and unqualified terms. But the volume ends with much, obviously (and as usual), still to be said...
Before total darkness, however, the Crimson should have cut short a threatened victory drought. Harvard has won only one of its last four games, against Army, and the onslaught of Dartmouth Saturday does not indicate a happy evening for the Crimson. Tonight, though, the puck Chasers are expected to enjoy complete command of the situation...
...first time since March, 1939 the Harvard hockey team has won a League game. The happy end to the victory drought came Saturday afternoon when the Crimson iced the Army at West Point by a decisive 6 to 2 count...