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...government proposed to recruit 125,000 unpaid, part-time volunteers as the nucleus of a force which could be expanded in wartime to 900,000 men. Their duties: to protect arms factories, airfields and fuel plants against saboteurs and parachutists. Each man would be issued a steel helmet and either a rifle or Sten gun, but, unlike the World War II Home Guard, the new outfit would wear no uniforms-yet. Last week Churchill's bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons without opposition...
...practice field, under the orange & black helmet that adds an anonymizing grimness to his features, Kazmaier shows more of the fussiness of the perfectionist than the jet-flaming drive of a great halfback. But the flame is building up: it appears on Saturdays. On the first play from scrimmage he is so tense that Quarterback Stevens has standing instructions not to let him handle the ball.* Once the warmup of the first play is over, Kazmaier takes...
Kazmaier's attitude towards his teammates who play defense is deferential and slightly superstitious. When the defense is making a stand deep in Princeton territory, Kazmaier watches from the bench with his helmet off, so as not to put the "whammy" on them. Kazmaier himself has made no more than two or three tackles since his sophomore year. He is too valuable a property to risk on that jarring job. But he gets his share of lumps and bumps by enduring a series of smashing tackles and pile-ons whenever he runs, by getting knocked flat when he passes...
Only two weeks after an opposing tackle's well-aimed blow broke the jaw of Drake University Halfback Johnny Bright (TIME, Nov. 5), the nation's leading ground gainer was gaining ground again. Playing with, a grilled face guard on his helmet and 11 Ibs. under his normal weight (cause of the loss: a liquid diet), Bright was jolted again the second time he carried the ball, and the wires holding his teeth together were snapped. But he stayed in the game, ran for one touchdown, passed for two more, picked up 106 yards on the ground...
Karen Killilea is a freckle-nosed little girl of eleven who falls down more than most youngsters: she has cerebral palsy. Like many another young palsy patient, she has been wearing a football helmet to protect her head. But a helmet is hot and heavy. Karen's father, a Manhattan engineer, took a better idea to Cavanagh's, the Park Avenue hatters. Last week Karen was wearing a jaunty cap. Built with a core of laminated plastic, it gives just as much protection as the helmet, and everybody, including Karen, thinks it is a lot more becoming...