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After Norm Cameron of the Bunnies had to drop out in the first inning because of a bad leg, Phil Weeks took the mound for the remainder of the contest. Cameron stayed in the game, however, and got two hits in three times at bat. Neff, pitching for the Elephants, did well except for the fourth inning when he gave up five urns and the ball game...
Breaking through with four tallies in the fifth inning, Dunster outscored Adams 7 to 5 in the nightcap of yesterday's inter-House softball doubleheader. Earlier in the afternoon Kirkland swamped Eliot 15 to 5. Wes Truscott went all the way on the mound for the Funsters, while shortstop Bill Lucke led the hitters with three singles in four tries. Bernie McMahon pitched for the Gold Coasters, but third baseman Charlie Morin was their star of the day, adding a professional touch with his slides into the keystone sack...
...Upon the mound, fenced in by evergreens and topped by a silver star, is a grave-a common grave for those who died in this place in the struggle against German Fascism, July 29-Sept...
Trucks. Chrysler's Army Truck Proving Ground adjoins the new Dodge Truck plant on Detroit's Mound Road. Of the 79,000 trucks which the Army is getting from Chrysler, 55,000 have been delivered. All four-wheel drives, they range from half-ton command cars (two-seaters with a canvas top and a snub-nose hood) to one-and-a-half-ton "cargo motor transports" (plain, everyday small-size trucks). For the benefit of the visitors barrel-bellied "Frenchy" Raes, chief test driver for Dodge, gave one of the little command cars and a truck the works...
...Churchill boarded the Augusta, moving jauntily in his cocky walk, a long, specially made cigar crunched in his teeth. He wore his Trinity House uniform of dark blue, the effect of its eight brass buttons slightly marred by the grey marks where he had hastily brushed away the little mound of silver grey cigar ash that collects on his stomach as he sits slouched down.* His zippered ankle-high shoes were half unzipped. He handed a letter to Franklin Roosevelt, said: "I have the honor, Mr. President, to hand you a letter from His Majesty the King...