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...overgunned" its tanks (a 75-mm. cannon, a 37-mm. cannon and four .30-caliber machine guns in the Chrysler M3, for instance), the British found that fire power is the first requirement of a tank-eating tank. Their own tanks, whose primary armament consists of the two-pounder gun (approximately the same as the 37-mm. cannon), were no match for German tanks carrying thirteen-pounders (roughly...
...lightest Harvard starters today are both Sophomores. Jim Reidy will meet Tech's Bob Gillooly in the 121 pound class; while 128 pounder Ed Guild faces Bill Clark. In the 136 class, Senior Harry Blaine tackles Dick Grant of Tech; and Sophomore Ken Heyman faces Captain Bob Fottes in the 145 pound scrap...
Johnny Page's decision that he needed more time for his studies and the handicapping cold of 175-pounder Lee Sosman have also crimped the squad's style...
...sporting press has found a "little Joe Louis," lightweight Ray Robinson. Young Robinson, a Harlem "hep-cat" just a half-inch under six feet tall, is neither little nor does he bear much resemblance to the world's heavyweight champion. But the way the skinny 139-pounder brushed off onetime Welterweight Champion Fritzie Zivic-steel-tough, ring-wise and seven pounds heavier-in a ten-round match at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week showed that another Negro was punching his way into ring history. In 115 fights, amateur and professional, Robinson has never been licked...
...plane goes into a steep dive and Mac, his eye to the bombsight, takes command: "Right a bit. Left a bit. Steady at that!" Four bombs are short, but the fifth, a 1,000-pounder, whangs the target with an explosion that drowns the plane in white light. Twisting and turning to get out of the searchlights, F for Freddie heads for the Channel and home...