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...baseball teams ever since. In addition to these coaching duties, he is now in charge of the athletic program for Company B of the ASTP unit here, a full-time job in itself. Apart from his activities at School, Coach Stahl enjoys handball, skating, and fishing. He is also partial to an occasional game of golf, he confides...
Ernest Taylor ("Ernie") Pyle, warm-worded war correspondent, learned that he had been given partial credit for improving U.S. mechanized equipment. From Africa, to the jeep's makers (Willys-Overland), Pyle had written: "The jeep is a divine instrument of wartime locomotion [but the present hand brake] is perfectly useless." Last week Willys-Overland wrote to tell him that they had substituted a good, new internal-expansion brake for the bad, old external-contraction type...
...carrier Hornet was sunk, and the recently repaired Enterprise was badly damaged. The destroyer Porter was sunk. The brand-new battleship South Dakota was damaged (and her famed Captain Thomas L. Gatch wounded). The cruiser San Juan suffered "considerable" damage. "We sank no enemy vessels . . . but there were partial compensations. Two enemy carriers had been put out of action and four Japanese air groups had been cut to pieces...
Tough Grind. In Hollywood, Stripteaser Betty Rowland bumped one of her swivel-hips against a wall, landed in the hospital suffering partial paralysis...
Said the Navy communique: "The Pacific fleet has returned in Truk the visit made by the Japanese fleet on Dec. 7, 1941, and effected the partial settlement of the debt...