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...review the catalogues-in rollicking verse. In Boston's ultra-respectable College Club, women flocked to a series of morning lectures on vegetable gardening. In Minneapolis, with temperatures ranging to 31 below zero, the Star-Journal's gardening editor was booked solid for lectures. In Dallas, the Robin Road Cooperative Association (ten determined couples who gave each other garden tools for Christmas) got off to an early start digging in its borrowed acre-the women wearing the most beautiful slacks ever seen in a vegetable patch...
...Correspondents Dick Tregaskis, I.N.S.; Robin Miller, New Zealand War Department; Jack Bowling, Chicago Sun; Bob Cromie, Chicago Tribune ; Ralph Morse, LIFE; Henry Keys, London Daily Express; Bill Hippie, A.P.; J. A. Bockhurst, News of the Day; H. E. Astley Hawkins, Reuters; and myself wish you all a Happy New Year from Guadalcanal...
...January-Tommy Manville will remarry or get a divorce or something. March-Millions of Americans who always thought the income tax was something for the rich to worry about will be brought up with a jolt. April-The first robin will be reported in all New England States. The first baseball holdouts will be reported in all others. May-There will be a new ration card. June-[Ex]Senator Prentiss Brown will wonder why he ever took Henderson's job. November-Hitler will proclaim all the Russian armies annihilated...
...game match with Crimmins, Day managed to keep his crown, 399.49 points to 398.28. But in the round, robin that followed, he and Crimmins both bowed to a comparative upstart, 25-year-old, 230-lb. Connie Schwoegler of Madison, Wis. Rolling a very slow ball with a slight hook, Schwoegler averaged 217 for 72 games. His score of 368.37 was 36 points better than Runner-up Frank Benkovic's, 39 better than Challenger Crimmins', 49 better than Champion...
When Rundstedt's armies occupied Vichyfrance, many small "Robin Hood" bands, composed mostly of workers, began operating in the outskirts of large cities. Their underground newspapers issued instructions, coordinated the activities of the different groups. Short, deadly raids and sabotage increased, French partisans, unlike those in Yugoslavia, are largely made up of Communists-who until World War II comprised the third largest party in France. When the Party was banned in 1939 they hid their guns. Recently they have been joined by veteran officers and soldiers and by men marked by the Gestapo. They recognize General Charles de Gaulle...