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Outplaying their opponents from whistle to whistle, the Commuters employed a bewildering array of offensive tactics and an unorthodox defense to pile up two touchdowns in the second half, and smacked down Lowell's ace back, Johnny Felmoth, in his own end-zone for another two points...

Author: By Joel M. Kane, | Title: Lowell Smothered By Commuters In Upset Win; Deacons Victors | 11/14/1941 | See Source »

With 250-350 locally recruited employes, Cohen and Crowley put on one of the quickest construction jobs Georgia had ever seen. Empire drove the first pile on May 31, poured some $800,000 into its Savannah Shipyards. Last week three shipways, four craneways were nearly complete. The keel for the first of twelve Victory ships will be laid about Dec. 1-less than two months after the Maritime Commission, finally relenting, granted the contract. Also under way: a $1,500,000 housing project for Savannah's 4,000 prospective shipyard employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR FRONT: Frank Cohen, Munitionsmaker | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

When Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, aged 44, died of heart disease in Hollywood last winter (TIME, Jan. 27), he left part of a novel which he had been pondering for three years, and a voluminous pile of notes on the unwritten part of the story. There was some talk, then, of having another writer complete the novel from the notes. But Critic Edmund Wilson, friend of Fitzgerald and his "intellectual conscience," chose another way to get this truncated work before the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Last Romantic | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...extra-League games will be played on Soldiers Field, beginning at 3:15 o'clock this afternoon when the C averly Clippers meet a Bellboy outfit that is sitting comfortably on the top of the House pile, and the erst-while unbeatable Kirkland eleven takes on the '45 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLIPPERS TAKE ON BELLBOYS TODAY | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

Born with a flair for showmanship as conspicuous as his red hair, he chases a football like a beagle after a rabbit, always seems to dive to the bottom of the pile to get it. He believes a referee's job calls for neither a blind man nor a hawkshaw, prefers to keep the show going rather than call every infraction of football's 65 pages of rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Time Out for Red | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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