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Headlining a list of top-flight personalities from stage, screen, radio, and the United States Marines, Jinx Falkenburg, America's magazine cover girl and queen of the billboards, will lecture very, very informally and exchange quips with the Class of '45 at the Freshman Smoker on May 11, the Yardling Committee announced yesterday...
...Jinx" Falkenburg, who was a leader in the 1941 publicity race for the Manhattan glamor stakes and then returned to Hollywood, asked a Los Angeles judge to shorten her name to plain Jinx. She said she figured that having the new name in electric lights instead of the old one would save the nation enough power to produce 26,000 lb. of aluminum. The judge reserved his decision...
...Senators; 5-to-0; at Scranton, Pa. Watching his performance was Wood's father, famed Smoky Joe, who, by the same score, 30 years ago almost to the day, chalked up a no-hitter for the Boston Red Sox against the St. Louis Browns. > Hollywood's Bob Falkenburg: the National Boys' (under 15) tennis championship; for the second successive year; defeating Jack Tuero of New Orleans, 4-6, 8-6, 6-4, in the final; at Culver Military Academy, Culver, Ind. In the Junior (under 18) championship, held simultaneously, Budge Patty, another Hollywoodian, won the title after...
From Berlin, centre of the Autobahnen, Herr Hitler's workers had also laid highspeed roads to Falkenburg, within 95 miles of the Polish Corridor; to Hamburg, in the northwest corner of the Reich; to Saarbrücken on the French frontier; to Munich in the south and Vienna in the southeast. As Herr Hitler was opening the Auto Show, 300,000 workmen were resting in 218 barrack towns for the next day of digging, blasting and concrete-pouring on Autobahnen in every quarter of the Reich, even in East Prussia, on the other side of the Polish Corridor...