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Princeton's young sophomore hurler, John Eide, was paired with Mort Waldstein of Harvard as the two pitchers chosen for the second team, giving the alternate aggregation a brace of south-paw hurlers. Stocky Lee Turner, Cornell catcher, was named to the backstop position...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOUR BEST BALL PLAYERS ANNOUNNCED | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

From el-Aghéila on the Gulf of Sidra, 360 miles by road from the Egyptian border, granite-jawed General Erwin Rommel turned on the harrying British desert fighters and lashed fiercely with an armored paw. The strength of his sudden assault, which backed British advance elements 145 miles up the Mediterranean coast, set Britain's desert staff officers harder than ever at a tough job: outthinking as smart and resourceful a general as ever put foot in a field boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE DESERT: The Seesaws Saws Again | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...succeed Premier Saw, arrested by the British last fortnight for dickering with the Japanese (TIME, Jan. 26), the British Governor of Burma last week picked robust, midde-aged, cheroot-smoking Sir Paw Tun, formerly Premier Saw's Minister of Lands & Revenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Sir Paw for U Saw | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

English-trained as a barrister, Sir Paw Tun went back to Burma via the U.S. 20 years ago, fell in love at first sight with an American blonde, married her. He and Lady Paw Tun live in a mansion opposite Rangoon's City Hall, have two sons and a daughter. Lady Paw Tun runs a kindergarten for Europeans and Burmese. Premier Paw Tun, who is expected to accommodate the British better than Axis-inclined Premier Saw, still wears a silk headpiece and skirt, Burmese-style, but is so westernized that he eats with a knife and fork rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Sir Paw for U Saw | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...Bruin is no Smaltz Flower but Israel animal. His Savage paw is Pfister than the eye, so Dowen-t Pattee him. Just let him Fidler round...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ., | Title: Hu Flung Huey Flings 'Em | 11/15/1941 | See Source »

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