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...would be to continue hammering at Britain, simultaneously to drive toward the Near East, where are supplies of oil which Germany and Italy need to fight a long world war. Conquest of the Near East would further two other objectives: 1) force the Suez gateway to the Mediterranean; 2) flank Russia on the south. As Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini and Foreign Ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Count Galeazzo Ciano finished a luncheon of lobster salad, saluted one another and went their respective ways, all signs pointed to an early drive...
...strategic move designed to strengthen the Crimson right flank, Senior Joe Koufman, who has been stationed at the right guard position since the beginning of the season, was moved back to his old end post and Don Lowry was promoted to first string right guard by Coach Dick Harlow as the varsity worked out for over two hours in a steady drizzle yesterday afternoon...
...Michigan Wolverines and the fatal afternoon of October 12, a real judgment day for 1940 Harvard football Tom Harmon, undoubtedly one of the three or four greatest runnings backs of all time, will provide the acid test. Cracking over a guard, slinging a touchdown pass, or skirting a distant flank are all in the day's work for this miracle man wearing the Maize and Blue. And he has the pleasing faculty of picking up anywhere from seven to 28 points during a Saturday matinee...
...spear-hurling Ethiopians nor rock-rolling Albanians but a hotchpotch of crack British units, Punjabis and South African volunteers, tough New Zealanders and wild Australians. Against them Graziani appeared to be committed to a frontal assault, while exposing his lengthening columns to attack from desert tanks on his right flank, the guns of the British Mediterranean Fleet on the left, mine traps below ground, planes overhead. "The tortoise has stuck his head out of the shell at last," gleefully confided one British officer. But not yet was desert-wise Graziani a tortoise floundering in the shifting sands. He waited, strengthened...
...Collins machine had taken an anti-New-Deal, anti-Third-Term stand, toyed with the idea of plumping for Willkie. Whereupon revolt broke loose against the Collins machine. And New Deal Congressman Clyde L. Garrett (since defeated for renomination by a Collins candidate) went after Collins' business flank, threw nothing in the way of the FTC complaint...