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...seven weeks, the Red and Nazi master players feinted, traded pawns, moved flesh-and-steel chessmen across Russia's vast chessboard. For seven weeks, in a desperate effort to fathom each other's strategy, they pored over maps, battle reports, messages from spies and scouts. Last week both knew: the Russians had outguessed and outplayed their...
Rockwell's popularity is not hard to fathom. His pictures are never self-sufficient as painting; they nearly always tell a story. Moreover, he constantly achieves, with no sacrifice of conscientious sincerity, that compromise between a love of realism and the tendency to idealize which is one of the most deeply grained characteristics of the American people. He has a born eye for the face which combines individualism with typicality, a hairline intuition for the gentling (some would say falsification) which will make it most broadly appealing, a quick and simple love-richly shared with his audience-for home...
Then in the door walked something very rate in Naval History ... An aviator who had been attached to submarine with fight orders complete with hours and three 30 fathom dives with an authorized advance and three applications for allotments. The aviator insisted he should receive 50 per cent times his submarine pay because he was a pilot, and 50 per cent times his aviation pay because be was on a submarine. He also wanted an increase of five years longevity because he had five years in the Kansas State Sea Scouts ... Suddenly Ensign Drawers awoke ... Sure is great...
...retain their title, this year's Indians must be even better than last year's. Rival coaches, with ample time to have studied slow-motion pictures of Stanford's 1940 games, should be better prepared to fathom Coach Clark Shaughnessy's tricks. So far, Oregon and U.C.L.A. have failed to do so. Last week against U.C.L.A., Shaughnessy used 48 substitutes, watched his tribe tomahawk the Bruins 33-to-0, Stanford's twelfth victory in a row. One team that may stop Stanford is Washington, bent on revenge for last year's defeat (its only...
People who saw Ambassador Winant found it easier to fathom his feelings about the U.S. attitude toward war than about Britain's chances. He was obviously depressed by the U.S. attitude. U.S. citizens talked a lot about British morale. They did not understand that Britons who could keep a stiff upper lip in their own defeats were disheartened by news which the U.S. took for granted. It shocked them to learn that American automobile production, in the first three months of 1941, was up almost 20% over the same period of 1940-for Britons had learned the fatal cost...