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...monster jam session at the Bradford Sunday was too often just monstrous. Considering that the affair was a daring experiment, it was by no means a disappointment. Close to a thousand people proved beyond any doubt that there is a large audience for jazz in Boston, provided, of course, that the jazz is of a well established variety...
...thin-haired, bespectacled, 31-year-old Reshevsky lived in present-day Russia-where chess is the national pastime and people jam the streets to watch the moves of championship matches on giant dummy boards-he would be a national hero. But in the U.S., where chess has no more spectator appeal than calisthenics, Reshevsky is just another guy named...
Unlike most price-cutters, Pan Am and Panagra did not reduce rates to get more business-they already have more traffic than they can handle, practically all flights have long waiting lists. Instead they cut rates after CAB held a closed session with airline operators, broadly hinted the jam-packed U.S.-Latin American airlines were making too much money-especially in wartime. Next to get a similar hint will be U.S. domestic airlines, which hiked profits over 100% in the first nine months in contrast to a 30% decline in general corporation profits...
General Chennault's Air Task Force, based in China's Yünnan Province, worked hard all week. Having won control of the air over Yünnanyi, most advanced Jap base inside southwest China, the flyers hit Lashio four times to try to jam the railhead through which supplies flow to the Japs' Salween front. For the first time they jumped on Japanese convoys on the Burma Road in broad daylight, hitting oil dumps in the junction town of Mingmao twice and catching trucks dispersed under trees. They blew up a railroad bridge south of Mandalay...
...whom played at guard for the '45 Freshman team. Mal Moley, '45 tennis star, is also competing. Mike Keene, captain of last year's Freshman team, who was converted from center to guard by Brown, is out for around 11 weeks with a broken wrist suffered in a jam-up under the basket in practice last week...