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...heaviest hitting games of the summer softball schedule, a third-place Eliot team steam-rollered Adams, 17-3, sending the Gold-Coasters into a deadlock for the cellar. Also in yesterday's softball wars, the league-leading Lowell Bellboys slipped a notch nearer second-place Dunster when Winthrop trounced them...
Airport to Kremlin. From the airport a seven-car motorcade led by a black Packard limousine rolled on to Leningrad Highway past a huge statue of Lenin and mammoth apartment buildings with ragged faces, where war priorities had halted construction work. Nearer the city the highway merged into twelve-laned Gorki Street. Soldiers queuing up to buy afternoon newspapers and women carrying net sacks with bread and vegetables scarcely noticed the cars. But as the first limousine rolled down Gorki Street hill and turned west along the north wall of the Kremlin, U.S. and British correspondents recognized-in the light...
...nearer you live to the center of a large city, the more likely you are to go insane. If you live in an urbanized riverside area (like sections of St. Louis, Milwaukee, Omaha, Kansas City and Peoria by Clarence W. Schroeder. His findings (published in the current American Journal of Sociology) confirm the striking insanity pattern for Chicago (see cut) discovered by Robert Faris and H. Warren Dunham (Mental Disorders in Urban Areas...
...strung. The Nazi Brüsseler Zeitung angrily reported that Belgians who gathered in the streets to spread stories of invasion would be punished for rumormongering. Inside the Reich the Frankfurter Zeitung declared tensely: "We are in this affair deeper than ever. We feel the moment of decision is nearer than ever...
...convoy route to Murmansk and Archangel, perhaps compel a major German diversion from Russia's northern fronts. If they failed-and the odds against final success would be great -they might still upset the Nazis enough to increase the chances of success along the invasion coast nearer Britain...