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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South from Kyushu. Jap planes buzzed out of the overcast. Escorting warships, deployed around the dead Franklin, fought them off and fought the Franklin's fires. It was now past noon. The Franklin was still belching smoke and beginning to list heavily when the cruiser Pittsburgh finally succeeded in taking her in tow. At three knots the convoy started crawling away from the shores of Japan, the Franklin yawing and staggering in her agony. Men went to work to correct her 13° list. Hydraulic controls for counter-flooding were out, but Downes and his men put on rescue...
...Government promised several more immediate reforms. It abolished a long list of semifeudal laws which compelled the Indians, both men & women, to work for their landlords without pay, sometimes as much as five days a week. It agreed to enforce a longstanding, long-flouted law requiring landlords and mine owners to support elementary schools. The Government also threatened to punish "agitators"-which suggested that the proposed reforms were made to quiet rural unrest...
Gloom hung heavy over all the western clubs, but the blackest cloud was over the once-mighty Cardinals (who had only managed to break even in 26 games). First Marty Marion and Al Schoendienst went on the injured list, then Pitcher Max Lanier went home for probable induction. At this point Mort Cooper, the Cards' No. 1 pitcher, walked out. He still wanted his paycheck boosted to $15,000 or else (TIME, April...
With an election coming up to choose new members of the T.N.E.-dominated Student Senate, President von KleinSmid demanded that the Senate make public a full list of T.N.E. members. When no list appeared, he disbanded the Senate, removed the student president and secretary from office, canceled the election. A faculty committee denounced T.N.E. as a promoter of "native fascism...
...spotted the many married couples, but highest on the list were Ann Murray and husband Bill. Not far behind were the Steins, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Seltzer-and his Mrs. seemed to be "sent" by the Alura boys. Bill Stark and friend Jim Smith liked the dance so well that they stayed until 3 A.M.-at the dance, we mean, Smitty's girl, or so sayeth D. Staff, has her eye on the current best seller, "Psychology of the Southern...