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Spear & Shaft. The spearpoint of U.S. Naval effort in the Pacific is the Asiatic Fleet based on Manila. The shaft of the spear is the line between the Philippines and Honolulu. The fist that wields the spear is Admiral Kimmel's fleet, based among the naval shops and the complicated waterways of Pearl Harbor. As long as the Navy could maintain this base, the spear could strike where it was aimed in the Far East. So strategists, thinking of the shaft in terms of the supply it must carry, called it the lifeline of the Pacific...
...informal meet against Tufts Saturday afternoon in Briggs Cage enabled Coach Jaakko Mikkola to get a line on the abilities of his charges as they went into action against outside competition for the fist time this season. The Varsity and Freshman teams copped 16 firsts and a goodly number of seconds out of 21 track and field events to defeat the Jumbos convincingly. Times were taken but not released or counted for scores...
Behind closed doors, in committee meetings, disputes sputtered all week. In the Statler's lobby and bar, there were several short but solid fist fights between C.I.O. brethren. Though Lewis stayed in Washington, Daughter Kathryn was at the convention. So was Brother A. D. ("Denny") Lewis. Surrounded by delegates of his construction-workers union, he sat glowering on his hunkers through the convention, ostentatiously keeping his seat whenever the rest of the delegates rose to applaud. When Brother Denny went abroad he was accompanied by a beefy bodyguard...
...excitement of the action, both sides often overstepped themselves. There was many a fist fight, one tragedy. Beating off a tank attack, one excited soldier flung a smoke bomb into a tank, permanently blinded the driver. Engineers, cooks, even aviation mechanics took a hand in the fighting before the battle was over...
Archangel. Sir Walter Citrine, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, who recently headed a T.U.C. delegation to Russia, said last week that he had seen Hurricanes being landed at the White Seaport of Archangel "hand over fist." But he said that ice was already forming in the harbor. The Russians have assured Britain and the U.S. that Archangel's two new icebreakers can keep this route clear. For the time being it is the best and quickest...