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...Palestine, but it recognized, too, the religious significance of the Holy Land to many peoples; it examined the economic importance and limitations of Palestine, but it also remembered the words of the original mandate and the faith placed in Great Britain by the League; it rejected the 1937 Peel Commission's contention that might (and oil) make right, but it refused, too, to put its trust in a short-sighted, if definite, series of figures...
When an important man slips on a banana peel, he looks more ridiculous than a little fellow. That's what happened to Sammy Baugh this week. Pro football's greatest passer faded behind his goal line, cocked his arm for a risky pass. The ball hit a goal post, bounced back into the end-zone for a safety and a two-point deficit. That deficit cost the Washington Redskins the world's pro football championship...
taking 51 lickings in 68 games. Whether he lasts until the Phillies' postwar plans blossom-wealthy, youthful Owner Bob Carpenter aims to peel off the greenbacks as soon as ballplayers become buyable again-depends on what he makes of his present pitiful club...
...Protection. In Hollywood, the Citizen-News was asked "How can I protect the eyes when peeling onions?"; answered "Dip them for a moment in boiling water. Then begin at the roots and peel upwards...
Where General Patton might be in the next three hours he himself did not know. If Patton got a hunch-and Ike Eisenhower gave him the green light-he might peel off with a tank column for Berlin, or Leipzig or Berchtesgaden, at a moment's notice. If Patton's wildest dream came true, he would find Adolf Hitler in a German tank and slug it out with him. But for the moment, dreams aside, Patton had reason for calm and happy reflection. He was having the time of his action-choked, 40-year Army career...