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Football in 1943 was not quite dead yet. Rose, Cotton, Sugar, Orange Bowls and the East-West Shrine game still remain to be played, a dozen or more All-America teams to be picked. The first important one was published this week by the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, after polling 86 sportswriters. Its features: five Marines, five Notre Dame players, only one civilian (Notre Dame's Creighton Miller, who was discharged from the Army for high blood pressure). The lineup...
...years of planning, after four years of work, the Jefferson Memorial was finished, built as the southern and last wing of the famed kite-shaped "L'Enfant plan," of which the White House is the northern wing, and the Capitol, the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial are the east-west line, connected by the Mall. Next week, on the 200th annivesary of Thomas Jefferson's birth, the celebrities will gather, the speeches will be read...
...trucks, interstate commerce, which the Constitution guarantees shall be unobstructed, is about as free as a traffic jam. State regulations (chiefly on vehicle weight and length) stop them in every direction. Pennsylvania, sprawled athwart main east-west as well as north-south routes, limits vehicles' weights to 19½ tons (way under that of bordering States). Kentucky, like a feudal baron astride the routes from the Midwest to the South, limits weights to 14 tons (liberalized last year from 9 tons), and exacts toll from highway commerce. Other blockades: Kansas (where trucks have to line up for hours...
...Allies had to write off southern Burma (see p. 20). General Wavell now had to prepare the defenses of India proper. Defending India, he also defends China and its last supply routes. He defends Russia on India's north. He defends Suez and the Middle East from an east-west Nazi-Japanese pincer. Above all, for the final phase of World War II, he defends in India a necessary Allied supply center and base for future offensive action through China...
...peace-pamphlet "bomber" of Washington in 1939, Isolationist Laura was charged with having been on the Nazi payroll (and failing to register as an agent) since Aug. 1. She took up flying in 1928, began setting records in aerobatics in 1930. She was the first woman pilot to fly east-west nonstop coast to coast, bagged a Harmon Trophy in 1935 "I was a free agent and took no orders," she claimed at a hearing last week. "I undertook something that I thought I could handle alone, and I guess I overreached myself." For lack of $7,500 bail...