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Last week, as the 1941 baseball season was about to begin, baseball experts were perversely all agog about its far-off end. Some of the best dope available came from an exciting dress rehearsal at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. There 48,000 jabbering fans turned out to watch the Dodgers and the New York Yankees, both returned from spring training in the South, play in a three-game exhibition series...
...future might be, he was on the crest of the present. To some he was a monstrous symbol-he was State Socialism, or Governmental paternalism incarnate, a man with powers too great for any man to wield. To others he was a figure of awful benevolence: the far-off giant in Washington who had saved their farms or banks or railroads or mines; who had rehabilitated stores, factories, schools, shops and homes after earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, or after financial disasters just as catastrophic...
...thought his greatest speech, Franklin Roosevelt orated mellowly of hemisphere defense and freedom of the seas, while Wendell Willkie bellowed huskily about plant amortization as a bottleneck in the defense program. Not many of the 45,000,000 U. S. voters can define the word amortization, but even in far-off South America listeners could appreciate the President's vibrant "Viva la Democracia...
...spot, the many-railed freight yards and junction of Hamm. At Bremen they smacked the big Focke-Wulf aircraft plant where a new twin-tailed fighter with "swallowed" engine is being turned out, said to fly 400 m.p.h. Each side was "softening up" the other and a report from far-off Turkey carried by travelers from Germany indicated the kind of damage both sides were already suffering. According to the accounts the Rhineland populace was thoroughly terrorized by R. A. F.'s incessant raiding, especially at Essen, home of the vast Krupp plants...
They could believe there might have been traitors and spies in far-off Scandinavia, in Belgium, perhaps in France; that a fifth column might now be operating in South America (see p. 32}. But they were still half-inclined to credit Hitler's outburst last week, denying that there was any such thing as the fifth column, denying any Nazi concern with...