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Last week, Monroe County's wheat farmers got what they asked for. In Fort Sheridan, Ill., Private John V. Prochaska, 210th Coast Artillery, packed his barracks bag, slung it over a khaki shoulder, waved good-by to his battery. Monroe County's only threshing-machine owner and operator had a 30-day furlough to winnow the grain for his home county...
...hogs had diarrhea. He hurried home to his farm in north central Indiana's Carroll County. There his maternal great-grandfather was the first white settler, on a grant signed by Vice President Martin Van Buren in 1835. His paternal grandfather, Andrew Jackson Wickard, his worldly goods slung across his back, rode his one-eyed bay mare, "Chubby," into the county's Section...
China's only unblockaded supply route for U.S. goods is the Burma Road. Since the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China last January the Road has been within 350 miles of Japanese airfields. The Road is peculiarly vulnerable: it passes over two bridges slung precariously in gorges of the Mekong and Salween Rivers, and as it winds around the shoulders of huge hills it is as easy to see as a yellow ribbon binding a pile of green bundles. That it has not been permanently cut has been due to the halfheartedness and poor aim of Japanese bombers...
...Henry A. Wallace stepped to bat in a charity softball game, nearly swung himself off his feet at a ball three feet wide of the plate, then made a comeback with two hits. ∙∙ Melon-waisted Leon Hender son, who had long hung his thumbs on a low-slung belt, changed to white suspenders, hung his thumbs up three inches higher, pronounced the new arrangement good...
Button-eyed, bewhiskered, low-slung Scottie Fala, First Dog of the Land, was named first president of Barkers for Britain...