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...Today the struggle of man's spirit is against new and curious shackles...a seven days' wonder, a new child of tyranny-a political religion in which the leader of the state becomes, himself, an object of worship and reverence. This Nazi freak must fail, if only because men are not clods, because the spirit does live...
...days the concentrator in Far Eastern languages was something of a freak. It is not surprising, therefore, that in his graduate days Edwin Reischauer should have found himself at the head of a one-man class in Chinese. It is still less surprising, that, with the present demand for men versed in the outlandish tongues of the Orient, the freak of yesterday should suddenly be transformed into the expert of almost unique utility today. He who once imbibed the cup of knowledge in solitary splendor now dispenses its to some sixty would-be Intelligence men, interpreters, and Far Eastern experts...
Bonham is no strike-out specialist like Bob Feller, Dizzy Dean or Lefty Grove. He has neither a fireball nor a tantalizing curve. But two weapons he can rely on are control and a freak pitch known as a fork ball (a slow ball that sinks and sometimes breaks away). Oldtimers say Bonham's fork ball can't compare with the one Bullet Joe Bush used to throw for the Athletics and Yankees. Still, used as a change-of-pace ball, Tiny's forker has fooled plenty of batters...
Some 20 front-line correspondents have been killed or captured since the U.S. went to war, including several believed to have faced Jap firing squads. Numbered with them last week was Melville Jacoby, brilliant, 25-year-old correspondent of TIME and LIFE who died instantly in the freak plane accident that killed Brigadier General Harold H. ("Pursuit") George at an advance air base in Australia...
Lashing the castern seaboard, the freak April blizzard wiped out more than 10 intercollegiate diamond engagements. The Penn-Navy clash at Annapolis was the only major contest to be played, and it resulted in a ninthinning 11 to 8 victory for the Quakers...