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...nation's newest speed merchant is an 18-year-old, bowlegged Texas cowboy, who guesses he looks pretty funny in a 100-yd. dash. He would rather wrestle steers or score touchdowns for San Antonio's Thomas Jefferson High School (he was the state's top scorer two years ago). Then his coach said that track would help his footballing, so Perry Samuels became a sprinter-and all last year ran a close but chronic second to speedy teammate Charley Parker (TIME, May 15, 1944). This year he pared his 100-yd. time down...
...Thorpe, 57, the greatest all-around U.S. athlete of the '20s, saw his 18-year-old son go into the Navy, joined the Merchant Marine himself...
Since 1941, the U-boat fleet had sunk no less than 440 U.S. ships, of 2,740,000 gross tons; mines, surface ships, aircraft and miscellaneous enemy action boosted the toll to 538 ships (3,310,000 gross tons or almost 5,000,000 deadweight tons). U.S. merchant seamen killed or missing totaled 5,579. To the British Empire, the cost was far greater: 2,570 ships, of 11,380,000 gross tons; 30,000 mariners dead or missing. For all the Allies and the few neutrals, the monstrous total stood: 4,770 ships, 21,140,000 gross tons:-equal...
BASEBALL--A TEAMHarvard Opp. April 21 At Quonset Naval Air Station 3 15 April 28 Constitution Coast Guard 1 0 May 2 Quonset CASU 3 May 12 King's Pt. Merchant Marine Academy 8 0 May 16 Northeastern 10 0 May 23 Brown 5 6 May 26 Worcester Polytech. Institute -10 2 May 30 At Motor Torpedo Boat STC 7 4 June 2 At Brown 11 0 June 6 At Cushing General Hospital 10 0 June 9 Tufts 2 1 67 31 Won 8 Lost 3 BASEBALL--B TEAM Harvard Opp. April 28 U.S.C.G. Receiving Station--Boston...
...propaganda shows, Quinn says, "We have better audience reaction, we get more fan mail, our Crossley [listener rating] goes up." His explanation: listeners are already interested in the subjects. To test the program's pull, Fibber & Co. were given exclusive rights to one OWI plug, an appeal for merchant seamen. The War Shipping Administration said that "responses doubled the next...