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...activities. He takes ten subjects, required of every first classman (senior). He has the high honor and responsibilities of a cadet lieutenant. Like a third of his class (including four others from Army's starting line-up), he has crammed pilot training into an already crushing 16-hr. daily schedule...
...Longest gloved fight on record: no rounds (7 hr., 19 min.) between Andy Bowen and Jack Burke at New Orleans, La., April 6, 1893. When both men were unable to continue, the referee ruled it no contest...
Married. Thomas Franklyn ("Tommy") Manville Jr., 49, asbestos heir; and Macie Marie Ainsworth Ettinger ("Sunny") Moran, 19, twice-married ex-chorine; in Manhattan. The marriage lasted 7 hr. 45 min. At week's end Mrs. Manville No. 7, fortified with a book about the Medici, took a train to Reno, and New York State Senator Louis B. Heller said he would sponsor a bill to outlaw matrimonial Houdinis who "affront the majesty and dignity of the state...
...their fiasco in Tunisia, they have poured troops into Greece and Bulgaria and have greatly strengthened their fortifications. Allied estimates are that the Germans have 60 divisions in the Balkans, commanded by such outstanding men as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Air Chief of the Mediterranean; General Alexander Löhr, Commander of Balkan land forces. Top commander in the area was reported to be Field Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm Walther List, who led Hitler's Balkan offensive two years...
...management. To run the railroad the Government has 48.8% more employes, pays 35.3% more compensation. But with all this the Government has made only 3.3% more train-miles than during the last year McNear ran the road. And while the employes work one hour less than the 8½-hr. day they formerly put in, individually they earn less money-$7.96 per day v. the $8.75 McNear paid them...