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...first raid on Pearl Harbor, U.S. anti-aircraft gunners had bitter proof of a once arguable proposition: that the U.S. needs hub-to-hub anti-aircraft protection for its vital points. For that protection they still had to wait on U.S. production. But last week, as the need became urgent, they had evidence that the U.S. was finally catching up with the anti-aircraft parade, perhaps ready to jump into the van. Anti-aircraft men were notified that soon they would have a gun that would shoot as high as military planes can now operate...
...gala tour of the College and of the Hub has been planned for Maria, who is best known as a model of the latest fashions in sweaters for Life magazine. Mayor Tobin and Governor Saltonstall will give her the keys to the city when she arrives on Thursday, and later she will be brought to Harvard for a tour of the Yard, a press reception at Phillips Brooks House, and a broadcast over the Crimson Network...
...formal order, to be issued very soon, will forbid the use of nickel, chromium, copper or aluminum in nonfunctional automobile parts. These are the principal materials in the huge shiny grilles, glistening hub caps and sparkling trim which garnish the 1942 models. An important exception: bumpers, tagged "functional" after an acrimonious Government-industry semantic fight...
...down South. The Ukraine, which usually has its heaviest rains in June, this summer had unseasonable torrents in August. Mud was last week still a hindrance almost as great as the enemy. Vehicles bogged hub-deep (see cut}. Messagero's war correspondent wrote: "The soldiers say: We are caught in the chocolate." But long, mild, dry days are soon due on this front. And here the winter comes late. The Germans, apparently feeling that they had plenty of time to break through to the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea, last week went to work establishing bridge heads across...
...They were pretty nice about it," said Hub to Maw. "First place I went to fixed us up a credit. . . . They knowed we was on the WP & A. . . . Right nice folks...