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...last Olympic Games (1936) were held in Berlin. This time the Germans will probably not even be allowed in the hop, skip & jump. Last week the International Olympic Committee chose London for the next Games (XIIth Olympiad). Date: 1948. Probable grounds: the cramped Wembley Stadium, whose seating capacity (42,000) is less than half as big as the last two Olympiad scenes. Still unsettled: 1) what to do about Russia's semi-pro athletes, whose victories are rewarded in cash by the Soviet Government; 2) whether to invite Italy (Germany and Japan are specifically outlawed until they can demonstrate...
Railroad passengers who have long endured the lurching promiscuity of the open-section sleeper, the hop-skip-&-jump down the leg-barred aisle of a club car or the dubious amenities of a coach wash room are due for something better, and very soon...
City bus lines, which had been forced to use the skip-stop system, a wartime innovation apparently designed to facilitate passing up passengers, would this week be allowed to halt under virtually every street light if the driver was in the mood...
...fugitive from Selective Service tried to skip across an ice floe, fell in. Pursuing FBI men fished...
...Japs sent up a major intercepting force. Now, relying on ack-ack for defense, they hoarded what planes they could for the crisis they foresaw. The U.S. planes ranged as far as Lingayen Gulf, sinking and firing enemy ships. Marine Corps Corsairs, rigged as fighter-bombers, skip-bombed and strafed targets in southern Luzon; they found some ammunition trains which blew up with a satisfying display...