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...much beset King Hill is lucky to get three seconds. Patton knows that the Colts' Lenny Moore will tip off the fact that he is going deep for a pass by shuffling through his first few steps, and he knows that the Los Angeles Rams' Del Shofner starts at top speed when he is the deep...
...victories, eight losses) by beating powerful Purdue, 12-0. Columbia, long practiced in the art of losing gracefully, upset Ivy League predictions by whipping Brown, 23-20. Michigan State ran out of substitutes while eating up Indiana, 54-0. Texas Christian, riding on the broad shoulders of Halfback Jimmy Shofner, upset Ohio State, 18-14. While Georgia Tech settled for a scoreless tie with S.M.U., Auburn beat Tennessee, 7-0, and moved into the front of the race for the Southeast Conference championship...
...Shofner, 43, only steelwoman on the West Coast, has had little time for ordinary partygoing. Married in 1919, she took over her husband's railroad brake-shoe foundry at Linnton, Ore. when he died four years later. Mrs. Shofner did not like the cut of the brake shoe, patented a better one, sold her tidy little business for $200,000 in 1937. She bought a first-class ticket to Europe, but soon found she was less interested in cathedrals and art galleries than in the sooty, sprawling plants of the Ruhr, of Milan. She fell in love with steel...
...contracts, poured her first steel eleven days after Pearl Harbor. To meet Navy production schedules (for valve fittings, aircraft-carrier arresting gear, submarine net cable-guides), Mrs. Shofner deliberately overloaded her melting furnaces a full 100%. This was dangerous, but she put her faith in a skilled crew and a silver medal (the Virgin on one side, Christ on the other) sealed in the foundation of the furnaces. Said she: "God's on our side and anything that comes out of these furnaces fights...
...Lectromelt furnace, and expects to quintuple capacity. Now she plans to enlarge the tiny kitchenette in her plant, where she turns out quick meals for late-working employes, and hopes to can some of the vegetables she grows in the big Victory garden behind the plant. But Mrs. Shofner is no housewife at heart. She says: "The most beautiful thing in the world is a red-hot steel casting in the making...