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...insure the President's isolation, 65 Marines and 40 Secret Service men stood guard. Some were spaced along the fence that surrounds Hobcaw. Others guarded the lonely, forested 4½ miles of choppy sand road that leads to the highway to Georgetown, ten miles away. Several of the Marines had been at Guadalcanal, and knew how to drive off mosquitoes at night with small fires of pine cones. Their only excitement came when four Nazi prisoners escaped in Georgia; Hobcaw kept close track of the manhunt, until the last two Germans were caught at Columbia...
Boss of the Fifth Ward. Mike Scat is one of the more fragrant characters in U.S. municipal politics. Son of an Italian junk dealer, he went to high school and Georgetown University. Before he finished college, Frank Hague called him home to boss the Fifth Ward, where most of Jersey City's 70,000 Italians live...
Major casualties among the 300 who gave up: Stanford, Fordham, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgetown. Individualist Harvard decided something was better than nothing, arranged "token" games for its A and B squads with Tufts, Exeter, Andover, Camp Edwards...
...investigation of defense contract brokers. Monroe's trail led them there, and they had high suspicions. Their suspicions were all the Washington press needed. They remembered the "little green house on K Street" where President Harding's Ohio Gang hung out, the "little red house in Georgetown" where the aboriginal New Dealers schemed their schemes. Paced by Columnist Drew Pearson of the Washington Post, the press laid back its ears and bayed. Pages slopped over with heavy headlines...
...Millrose athletes came closest to a world's record. Four times in the past six years Negro Jim Herbert has romped off with this event. Last week he finished on the heels of two collegians: Georgetown's Hugh Short and Michigan's Bob Ufer. Short's winning time (1:10.2) equaled the world indoor mark...