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...Berlin, the Allies have always wielded a sort of railroad veto over Red Germany. Last week the Russians canceled out the veto by completing the last link of a 100-mile bypass railroad circling Berlin, all in Soviet territory. Their 15-mile link to a long-planned loop took nearly a year, required 5,000 laborers, and was made possible only "by applying Soviet working methods," said the East Germans...
...Some of the last new stunts: inverted tailspin and inverted falling leaf, introduced about 1930 by Lieut. Al Williams, first performed in England by R.A.F. Pilot George Stainforth; outside loop, introduced in 1927 by Lieut. James Doolittle...
...thunder of 100 guns died away; the ragged beat of engines jockeying in formation filled the air. The first plane bore a gigantic picture of Stalin. A 96-plane formation of civilian flyers spelled out Slava Stalinu (Glory to Stalin). Twenty-five light trainers soared through a huge loop. "The famous airman Nesterov was the first to make a loop of this kind," boasted the rich loudspeaker voice. "Stand guard over our beloved country. Glory to our youth, glory to our country...
Four and twenty fat women sat in a row. They hardly knew where they were-and didn't care. Eleven stories below, in Chicago's Loop, riveters chattered, but all they heard was a soothing, syrupy voice. Said the voice: "Close your eyes and relax." They did. "You are going to be deep, deep asleep in a few minutes." They slept...
With only two Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League contests remaining, the Yale-Princeton and Harvard-Yale games, Brown and Princeton have risen to the top of the loop out of the former five-way struggle for first place. Both teams may be invited to the N.C.A.A. championships this month. E.I.B.L. STANDINGS W L Pct. Brown 6 2 .750 Princeton 5 2 .714 Columbia 6 3 .667 Navy 5 3 .625 Cornell 5 3 .625 Pennsylvania 4 5 .444 HARVARD 2 4 .333 Yale 2 4 .333 Army 3 6 .333 Dartmouth...