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Forester's ship is the 5,000-ton light cruiser Artemis. Her job: with the help of four other light cruisers and a dozen destroyers, to escort a convoy to Malta. In the Artemis' crow's nest Ordinary Seaman Quimsby, his padded perch whirling "in prodigious circles against the sky," sees a faint wreath of smoke on the Mediterranean skyline and in a few minutes, "climbing over . . . the curve of the world," come six enemy cruisers, vanguard of an Italian force of battleships and destroyers...
...Texas, the creation of many large dams (Possum Kingdom, Buchanan and Ford) have produced fresh fishing areas well stocked with sporty perch and bass...
...ground has been broken, and the foundations are being laid by the War Manpower Commission for complete mobilization of manpower. This must naturally include the Negro. But whether this is a permanent advance or only a temporary perch "for the duration" will depend upon the efficiency that Negroes show in their jobs, the extent to which they find and master training at skilled trades, and the readiness of employers to evaluate American workers on a basis not of their color, but of their ability. It will depend, also, upon whether organized labor learns the lesson that the white worker will...
Stolz, a stylish young boxer, was rated the No. 1 challenger for Angott's crown. But the Beau, in his first appearance as a Garden headliner, punched him off his perch. After seven rounds of piston-like pounding reminiscent of Henry Armstrong's famed windmill attack, Stolz's left eye was bleeding so badly that the referee stopped the bout, awarded a technical knockout to the little brown upstart...
...usually staid and cynical press box went completely mad when Gordy Lyle caught Jack Comeford's pass . . . Vern Miller, last year's left tackle and now a columnist on the Boston Globe, was so excited that he nearly fell off his perch which was precarious at best...