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Saturday, the varsity meets Princeton here, in its third Eastern League game of the season. After suffering a 10 to 5 loss to Navy in its loop opener, the Crimson edged out Columbia, 1 to 0, last weekend on a no-hitter by Bob Kessler and Nod Felton...
...victory gives the Navy team a 1-1 record: Columbia defeated the Middies, 4 to 4, in the victors' loop opener. Columbia travels to Cambridge Saturday to meet the Crimson at Soldiers Field in a 3 p.m. game...
Chicago. Aiming point: the International Amphitheater in the stockyards. Destroyed: the Loop, the Gold Coast, the University of Chicago, Municipal Airport, Cicero. Badly blasted: the South Side steel mills and the North Shore suburbs...
...over Chicago turned an eerie shade of yellow-brown one afternoon last week, and a menacing twilight fell over the Loop-powdery topsoil, blown in from the Great Plains, was drifting once more in the upper atmosphere. It was a fearful reminder that the flatlands of the midcontinent, which had a green and healing decade of rain in the 19405, are dry again. This spring dust storms such as have not been seen since the "black blizzards" of the 19303 are blowing in the Southwest, in western Kansas, in areas of Nebraska, Missouri, Wyoming and Colorado...
...great Chicago fire of 1871, some 18,000 buildings and houses were destroyed, forcing Chicagoans to rebuild their city on new, more modern lines. Since then the "new" buildings have deteriorated, and large areas surrounding the downtown Loop district have long since turned into slums. Last week a group of Chicago business men announced a bold plan to cure this costly civic sore. The plan: spend $400 million in the next seven years to demolish the cheap hotels, rooming houses and honky-tonks that greet visitors approaching Chicago's thriving Loop, replace them with a cluster of new buildings...