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Four ships had bombed the target, then headed home in a tight diamond formation. Fourteen Jap fighters jumped them, shot down the win ship "Fyrtle Myrtle" (socalled because one of its crew was a new father, another expectant). Then the Zeros shot out one of "Golden Gator's" engines; the pilot, Captain Frederick S. Hinze Jr., dived the ship into a cloud...
Behind magnificent line play, Luckman threw five touchdown passes. Fourteen times his soft spirals connected, for 276 yards. But while most of this was going on, Baugh was off the field. Early in the game, an accidental but vicious crack on the head (while tackling Luckman) sent Sammy to the dressing room. He came back for about 10 minutes of the second half, barely time enough to toss two touchdown passes himself...
...Works, Tolstoy's War and Peace, e. e. cummings' The Enormous Room, Don Quixote, The Education of Henry Adams, St. Augustine's Confessions, Pilgrim's Progress, Lewis Carroll's Collected Stories, The Origin of Species, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, Fourteen Great Detective Stories, Anatole France's Penguin Island, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Odyssey, William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, Ring Lardner's Collected Short Stories, The Philosophy of Plato, Alfred North Whitehead's Introduction to Mathematics. Not included: the Bible ("We assume...
...Three could agree on the broader terms of the peace, they could make great political moves. Item: they might issue a joint ultimatum to the German people, stating for the first time the detailed aftermath of surrender, thus trying to alienate them from Hitler, as Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points wedged between them and the Kaiser...
...swarms of visiting servicemen and welders, Gypsy Rose Lee is a dazzling name. The second night-reported Columnist Leonard Lyons-Director Kaufman phoned to learn the worst. Todd chuckled: "We had 14 standees." Snapped Kaufman: "Say that slowly. I know you must be hysterical." Said Todd slowly: "Fourteen standees." "Send me the statement, verified," barked Kaufman. "And if what you say is true, then I'll quit show business...