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In Cobb and Joe Zilly, Yale boasts two of the league's first ten scorers. The dexterous little captain has 90 points in ten games for fifth place in the standings, while Zilly, a rugged football player, is ninth in the league standings with a total of 72 points in...
The going was getting tougher by now. The Italians were well entrenched in the rugged 6,000-foot Cheren plateau, difficult country for mechanized troops. Best British bet seemed to be fresh troops driving down the Red Sea coast from the north, which threatened to cut off the defenders on...
Three Points of Attack. Although they are surrounded by Japanese naval and air bases, Luzon's defenders have geography on their side. A landing on Luzon's exposed and relatively undefended east coast would be difficult, if not impossible, because of heavy swells and a lack of shelter...
The situation was not at all like that at Sidi Barrani, Bardia and Tobruch. There were no rigid, prepared defenses around Dérna (see map), no circles of wire and ditch. But the natural defense was rugged: a deep, wide wadi, the eroded path of an ancient stream. With...
Every big distributor in pictures turned down Nanook of the North-it had no love interest, no box-office names-until Trader Revillon talked Pathe into releasing it. A smash hit, Nanook was the end of Flaherty's career as an explorer. He went to the remote Samoan island...