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Despite this inauspicious start, big-league baseball expects to hobble through its full 1943 schedule, leaning heavily on sped-up minor-leaguers, near-40s and 4-Fs. With scarcely less enthusiasm than in peace years, experts last week tried to predict how the teams will finish in far-off October. In Betting Commissioner James J. Carroll's odds, as in sportswriters' polls, the Yankees, Cardinals and Dodgers were top-heavy favorites...
...least because in the grotesque juxtaposition was revealed so much of . . . their sense of the necessity to acknowledge what they could not experience in their hearts because life lad set them too high, the agenbite of inwit, the gnaw of an impersonal remorse and a dim perception of the far-off sorrow of others...
...summer. Now they worried about more personal matters: drafting fathers and drafting farmers, about ration points, coupons, regulations. Now they wondered why the Americans were not moving faster in Tunisia; once they had known very well the U.S. had, in effect, no Army at all, and Tunisia was a far-off name on an unknown map. The people had even got used to the scrappy little casualty lists...
...far-off England monitors on the German frequencies, listening for Göring's gutturral voice, 'heard instead the sudden crump of bombs, a confusion of muffled shouts. A flustered voice announced that Marshal Göring had been delayed for a moment. A military band brayed...
...From Miss Marllou Donarell of Lawrence came a challenging cry: "It behooves can of the so-called 'weaker sex' to restore the honor of the Dragon Lady." The message she got, unfortunately, was "JAP HID TRAP." but none can help but admire this courageous woman straggling alone in a far-off town, triumphantly achieving her long-sought goal...