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...Conference decision was hard on the feelings of Georgia students and Governor, but in practical terms it did not affect in the slightest the college operation, nor fortunately its standing in the Southeastern football conference. But repercussions may be serious...
Other Southern standouts: Mississippi State, pre-season dark horse which trampled Alabama last week (14-to-0) for its second Southeastern Conference victory; and University of Texas, led by triple-threat Pete Layden, one of this year's most versatile backs. Last week Texas trounced Louisiana State...
Last week occupied Europe took Hitler's words to heart. The conquered wanted freedom and revenge. Not by prayer, but by civil war, they sought it. The Slav peoples of central and southeastern Europe, as if they heard some far-off blood call of their cousins on the plains of Russia, sprang into bloody action...
...help the R.A.F. carry the war to the invasion coast with greater safety the British have anchored in deep, southeastern Channel waters a fleet of 50-foot "Air Sea Rescue" floats. These crewless havens for fliers who have plunged into the Channel are painted with the Red Cross, are available to Nazi as well as R.A.F. pilots in distress. At each end are ramps to make it easier for wounded men to climb aboard. Below decks are bunks, cookstoves, canned food, medicines, bandages, checkerboards, paper-covered libraries ranging from Shakespeare to whodunits, wireless telephones to call for aid, framed instructions...
When French Indo-China last week became Japanese Indo-China (see p. 21) the strategic map of southeastern Asia was redrawn. Japan had gained another stronghold on the South China...