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...England, citizens bet an estimated $40 million on their 164th Derby. With gas rationing eased, they hauled out ancient crates and cluttered the 90-mile road from London to Newmarket with traffic jams. Seam-busting race trains pulled out of Liverpool Station. Newmarket (the Derby is run at Epsom Downs in peacetime) was jammed with over 50,000 fans -including the King & Queen and thousands of G.I.s taking in their first Derby...
Gold fever ran its highest temperatures in Ontario's remote Midlothian township. There Prospector Felix Roche found a seam of gold-rich green rock at least 425 feet wide. The site is reached by portaging through a chain of lakes. Just seven days later, the 36 square miles of Midlothian township were staked solid...
...Army had not broken the entire line, but it had burst more than one seam. It was marching into a fragment of Poland, toward Rumania, toward the Baltic States. The border of Germany proper, at its nearest, still lay 340 miles across the buffer lands. But of pre-1939 Russia the Wehrmacht now held a slipping grasp on approximately 200,000 square miles; once it was master of 527,000 square miles of Russia...
Died. Lieut. General John Archer Lejeune, 75, ex-Commandant of the Marine Corps (1920-29), commander of the famed Second Division in World War I; in Baltimore. Chunky, lion-headed, seam-faced, Barrel-chested, he joined the Marines in 1890, commanded the Marines in Panama during the 1903 revolution, put down a revolt in Cuba in 1912, led the occupation of Vera Cruz in 1914. He commanded the Second Division (a regular Army brigade and the 4th Brigade of Marines) from late July 1918 to August 1919. Under him the division captured 3,300 prisoners in the St. Mihiel offensive...
...Negro. But drama lovers well might ask why, having played it twelve years ago in London, Robeson waited so long to play it over here. For in spite of muffing certain speeches-his lines sometimes throbbed awkwardly-and overacting certain scenes-his Grand Manner sometimes burst a seam-Robeson gave a performance that even at its worst was vivid and that at its best was shattering...