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Yesterday's practice was one of the most impressive so far this season, and the passing attack which will undoubtedly be the spearhead of tomorrow's offense against the Cadets, was functioning in high gear...
...yielding stubbornly-held ground on the south side of Generalissimo Franco's salient-to-the-sea, last week hurled a whacking good offensive across the Ebro into the north flank of that salient. Shock troops for the advance were chiefly five columns of foreign Leftists, forming the spearhead of Barcelona's drive, under command of up-&-coming General Vicente Rojo. Soon wounded in the back by a bomb fragment was James Lardner, son of late Funnywriter Ring. In Manhattan, portly Leftpundit Heywood Broun announced that Ring Lardner was the only genius he ever met, rejoiced that the wounding...
...Philip Morris was the No. 1 success story of a depression year. It had increased its sales 45%, its profits from $3,573,000 in fiscal 1937 to $5,663,000 in fiscal 1938 (ending March 31). Nor was this all. Last week Alfred Lyon, spearhead of P.M.'s sales drive since President McKitterick died in 1936, announced that Philip Morris has finally ousted Old Gold from its ten-year berth in the "Big Four...
BARCELONA--A fleet of 41 Insurgent planes into today dropped 300 bombs on the beach at Sagunto, 25 miles south of Generalissimo Franco's spearhead in his drive on Valencia, but caused only slight damage, the war office announced. Government anti-aircraft batteries brought down two of the raiding planes, the report said...
Discussing the present position of the Czechs, the professor continued, "Czechoslovakia made a mistake in lining up with France and Russia. She antagonized Germany immediately, and made herself the spearhead for anti-German feeling. Hitler now wants to make the Czechs a minority in his empire, thus turning the tables...