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...Louis Browns. By licking the Detroit Tigers, 7-to-1, they won their opening game for the ninth straight year. But when the Browns lost their next five games, dopesters began calling the Yankees shoo-ins. They might be, at that-but any judgments based on the first week's hurly-burly might live to be regretted...
...Washington, the "get-tough-with-civilians" band had regained ascendancy (TIME, Jan. 1). Manpower officials, who had used the word "critical" so often in recent months that it had lost all meaning, still talked of a need for 300,000 new war workers. But while they busily tried to shoo more men into factories, the Army upped its January and February draft quotas one-third. In New York, where war plants were short 73,000 workers, WMC's pert, tough Anna Rosenberg sent draft boards the names of 1,200 men who had been deferred as shipyard workers...
...attacked boat, seeing rifles, surrendered. A Partisan went aboard, ordered the prize to head for a small section of the coast which was held by Partisans. The Pioneer went after the next vessel, applied the same treatment. Two more were taken before one of the minesweepers arrived to shoo the now unarmed Pioneer away...
...Sunday, which may alter the situation . . . The Class Gift Committee has added another to the will and testament list. YOU may contribute by sending your donation to The Lucky Bag, specifying which particular type 3-minute-egg-timer you recommend . . . It may be spring, but the strains of Shoo Shoo Baby coming from Bingham's Office these days continue. Between "Bing's" crooning, and the newly founded DeHaas date bureau, Chase Roomers await the Robins...
...Browne's face when he came hurrying up with a home-town paper and picture concerning his brother, Jules, a member of the Naval Air Force who recently received the Distinguished Flying Cross...the tolerant, squinty smile on the face of the grim Ben. Stephens when he lost a shoo in radio engineering and called his stockinged foot while leaning on the aft bulkhead of Langdell (he couldn't double talk his way out of that one)...the spectacle of the artistic Bernie lange trying to teach his roommates the involved wigglings of the rhumba...the worried expression...