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...parental and class origins hardly anything is known. He was born on Jan. 8, 1902 in Orenburg, since renamed Chkalov in honor of the famed Soviet flyer who in 1937 hopped over the North Pole to the U.S.* His father was presumably a Cossack subaltern. Orenburg, on the southern flank of the Urals, where Europe meets Asia, was in those days a terminal for camel caravans from Turkestan. It also had the reputation of being a restless, independent place. The Cossacks and peasants of the Orenburg region had mounted one of the most troublesome popular uprisings of the 18th Century...
...measure off the floor for many more months. It was 8:25 by the time the maneuver-and Dixiecrat hopes of avoiding consideration of FEPC-was beaten by a vote of 179 to 107. Then Pennsylvania's bald, stocky Republican Congressman Samuel K. Mc-Connell attacked from the flank, introduced a substitute FEPC bill which included none of the Administration provisions for enforcement...
...usual, Captain Burke drove ahead at flank speed. Under a promise from Defense Secretary Louis Johnson of no reprisals, he testified before the House Armed Services Committee last October, presented a dispassionate defense of the Navy's cherished supercarrier which Johnson had summarily ordered abandoned soon after the keel had been laid...
...first and second lines remain the same. Dave Abbot and Doug Anderson are wings on Myles Huntington's first line; Joe Kittredge and Bill Garrity flank Lew Preston; and DiBlasio has Carl Timpson and Shorty Minot as third line wings...
...what about our grandstand quarterback's second suggestion, that Harvard should throw fewer passes. This was a magnificent example of the second guess in action, coming, as it did, hard on the heels of the Cornell touchdown scored by intercepting a Noonan pass to the right flank. What the second-guesser forgot was the Harvard Managed to gain twice as much yardage through the air as on the ground (187 to 91). In fact, lack of defense against short passes was just about the only weakness Cornell showed. It was this that led Valpey to make short passes...