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...vessels-including Italy's 18,765-ton Conte Verde, Japan's 16,975-ton Asama Maru-were ripped from their storm moorings, slammed ashore. The On Lee, a 1,026-ton coastal vessel, was smashed against the British cruiser Süffolk, bounced back like a ping-pong ball into the British destroyer Duchess, rammed through a wharf, piled up ashore at the foot of a waterfront street. At least 20 ships were reported sunk-four of them big ones-including Britain's Hunan, carrying 1,200 Chinese refugees from Shanghai...
...London's Stock Exchange last week brokers developed a new parlor game of cricket-with-ping-pong-balls. Wall Street went in for ticktacktoe...
Steel Front. Inside the Republic plant near which the bloodshed had taken place, newshawks found that some 1,000 non-strikers were not having a bad time, playing baseball and ping-pong in off hours. But Chicago's Mayor Edward J. Kelly acted to end their cloistered life. He wrote Republic Steel a polite letter declaring that the men were living in quarters (a wire mill) not designed for residence, an infraction of the city's health and housing ordinances. They would have to be evacuated within 48 hours. When the time expired, the company shunted 21 Pullman...
...Dartmouth, Harry Jr. roomed off-campus in the same yellowish house as Footballer Phil Spartacus Conti. Tall, slender, dark-haired, quiet, he got "gentle-men's" grades in his studies, became Phi Gamma Delta ping-pong champion, was rated a good beer drinker. Over the mantel in his disorderly room was the legend: "Commend a wedded life but keep thyself a bachelor...
...reactionary Southerner. Clan-conscious he undoubtedly is, but he says he is as conscious of his forbears' failings as of their fame. cites an Irish murderer and an opponent of Patrick Henry to prove it. "Even the best of us," says he. "have ancestors who were not ping-pong players...