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...answer was not immediately discernible. The ball game was inevitably won by the Yanks, 3-0, mostly because Hank Borowy refused to give the Red Sox a peek at the ball in the pinches. The performance was similar to pre-Pearl Harbor baseball...
...painters set to work in a biggish, two-windowed room. First they covered the red-green-&-brown-speckled carpet with canvas, then slapped a coat of cream-colored paint on the walls and departed. Other workmen began moving in telephones and desks. Staff officers who took time to peek noted that there was ample floor space for a couple of comfortable chairs, ample wall space for outsize maps. The office from which General Dwight D. ("Ike") Eisenhower will direct the invasion of Europe was almost ready...
Some newspapers tried hard to meet the 15%-plus cuts in newsprint use requested by WPB for 1943. Many did not. Result: a piddling overall reduction of only 5% plus. Last week U.S. newspapers got a peek at the bad news...
Last April, with much hoopla, Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly gave the voters a preliminary peek at the new Chicago subway. Last week, six months later, the first "official" train went through. The longest-promised (50 years), costliest ($6,938,000 per mile), shortest (4.9 miles) subway in the world was now open for business...
Veronica Lake and her three-year husband, Major John Detlie of the Army Engineers, decided to get divorced. The honey-haired refugee from the peek-a-boo explained: "We just don't think alike...